Mpraeso (E/R), Sept. 4, - The
Kwahu South District Assembly has cultivated 500,000 coffee seedlings to
support government’s Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD) programme
in the district.
The seedlings would be
distributed to coffee farmers free to boast coffee production in the district.
Speaking at a town hall meeting
organized in collaboration with the District Information Services Department at
Mpraeso, Mr Emmanuel Atta Ofori, the District Chief Executive, said the
assembly has engaged over 20 farmers at the coffee nursery to help in caring
for the seedlings.
He said the Assembly decided to
venture into coffee cultivation because the district is known to be the hub of
quality coffee production in the country.
To support government's policies
in creating employment for the youth in agriculture and social services, the
assembly, Mr Atta-Ofori said has engaged over 1,000 youths through the Nations
Builders Corps (NABCO), Youth Employment Agency (YEA) and the Youth in
Agriculture programs.
He said the District's Business
Advisory Centre (BAC) has also offered free trainings for about 200 artisans at
Atibie, Mpraeso, Bepong, Kwahu Praso and its environs.
Among the training offered were
beading, soap making, apprenticeship in electrical and auto mechanics,
tailoring and dressmaking.
Mr Atta-Ofori said the
beneficiaries of the skill training were given start- up kits to enable them
start their businesses on their own to help reduce unemployment in the area.
He said the assembly has made a
head way in ensuring good sanitation practices in the district by providing a
toilet facility for the people of Atibie and constructing mechanized boreholes
at Atuobikrom, Bepong and Kwahu Praso.
The assembly, he said, has also
constructed and renovated about five schools in the district and they are the
Mpraeso and Atibie D/A Basic School, Kwarfour D/A Primary, Bepong SHS and the
Asakraka D/A JHS and provided teachers' quarters at Nkyenenkyene to ease the
stress teachers undergo when posted to the area.
He said all access roads in the
district would soon be rehabilitated.
Mr Atta- Ofori appealed to
investors to establish factories and companies in the district to support the
government's One District One Factory (1D1F) policy.
Participants were given
opportunity to ask questions of which appropriate answers were given.
Meanwhile, the Victory
Ambassadors, a non- governmental youth organization in the district, has
presented a citation to the Honourable DCE for his hard work and support in
ensuring the development in the area.
GNA
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