The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr. Seth Kwame Acheampong, Municipal Chief Executive for Akuapem North Municipal Assembly including Eastern Regional Agriculture Director among Others has paid a day working visit to farmers who grows vegetables in Akuapem North and Yilo Krobo Municipal Assemblies in the region.
The visit took him to a private owned Maroun and Green Housing firm at Amonokrom, Legacy Crop Improvement Center firm at Otariso all in Akuapem North Municipality and later proceeded to Akpo Akpamu, a cabbage farming community in the Yilo Krobo Municipality.
Speaking to the media Mr. Acheampong noted that the region is dominated by farmers therefore it is the core mandate of the gov’t to support them to ensure they produce enough vegetables crops for the country and import purposes.
“I’m very much impressed with the kind of work this farmers are doing in the region and wouldn’t be surprised if a farmer from Eastern Region is being crowned as 2022 best farmer,” he noted.
He continue that the gov’t is committed to farmers; thus, the introduction of Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) and the Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD).
According to him, in the view of the gov’t will enable change the destiny of the Ghanian farmers by way of making them well resourced.
The gov’t representative of Akuapem North Municipal Assembly, Berimah Sarpong Asiedu Larbi told Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI that, he is happy to have Maroun and Green housing and Legacy Crop Improvement Centre companies in his municipality, hence they will create job opportunities for the youth in the area.
At Maroun and Green housing, the management complained that about the lakadasikal attitude of youth where they report to work every two weeks once they exhaust the little money in their possession.
Responding to that, Berimah Larbi expressed worry over the canker and said such behavior is a threat to investors from carrying out their business in the municipality.
“We will educate them to desist from such behavior and appreciate what the private firms in the area are doing to support them. Stating for the private owned companies to established their businesses on his soil would boost their local economy,” he fumed.
On his part, Eastern Regional Agriculture Director, Henry Crentsil Junior, added that “their aim is that the Assemblies will take farming activities very serious because agriculture is also contribute to the country’s development.”
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnews.
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