Take President's Planting for food and Job policy serious and go into farming - Nkoranza South MCE advises youth
The District Chief Executive of the Nkoranza South of the Bono East Region, Honourable Diana Ataa Kusiwa, said the Assembly adopted the cashew and Mango crops because of their potential in helping boost the local economy.
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The Municipal Chief Executive for Nkoranza South of the Bono East Region, Hon. Diana Attaa-Kusiwa has advised the youth to go into farming because it is profitable and can create more employment.
Madam Diana Attaa-Kusiwa made the call when the Nkoranza South District Assembly and Department of Agriculture commenced the distribution of 150,000 grafted cashew and mango seedlings to farmers in the area.
The distribution of the improved variety with a shorter maturity period falls in line with the government's Planting for Exports and Rural Development (PERD) initiative, which is aimed at decentralizing the National Tree Crops Programme to promote rural economic growth and enhance the foreign exchange earning capacity of the Ghanaian economy.
Speaking at a brief forum to present the seedlings to the District Department of Agriculture for inwards distribution to the over 2,000 registered farmers, the District Chief Executive of the area, Honourable Diana Ataa Kusiwa, said the Assembly adopted the cashew and Mango crops because of it's potential in helping boost the local economy.
She said the government of President Akufo-Addo is committed to improving the Agriculture sector hence the birth of the Planting for Export and Rural Development program which is also a subsidiary of the Planting for food and jobs policy.
She stated that farmers would receive the seedlings free of charge and also enjoy free technical assistance from the Agric department to ensure greater crop
In his remarks, Mr Attigah Hammond Selassie, the Nkoranza South District Director of Agriculture, thanked the Assembly for the presentation, adding that his outfit will see to the supervision and monitoring of the seedlings so as to avert failure.
He noted that the department, through the Agric Extension Agents, will distribute the seedlings to farmers within their operational areas base on the number of seedlings each farmer initially requested.
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