BY: DAILY GRAPHIC
The Wenchi Municipal Assembly is implementing four key local economic development (LED) programmes to benefit 300 farmers and create more than 3,000 direct and indirect jobs for the unemployed youth in the area.
The LED programmes are to boost the local economy, improve food security and reduce unemployment in the municipality.
The programmes include the rehabilitation of the 500 acres of Asubingya Irrigation Project to encourage all-year-farming and the cultivation of 200 acres of maize plantation at the Branam State farms.
Other projects include the procurement and supply of 1,200 pieces of beehive boxes for the production of natural honey, as well as nursing and distribution of 350,000 cashew seedlings to support local farmers.
The assembly is to use part of the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF), Internally Generated Funds (IGF) and other donor support funds to finance the special initiatives.
The Wenchi Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Alexander Obour Damoah, who spoke at the assembly’s meeting at Wenchi in the Bono Region, said the irrigation project is targeted at producing fresh vegetables with the use of the Public Labour-intensive Work.
He said the current economic situation in the country had made its necessary for all MMDAs to intensify efforts at implementing realistic local economic programmes to reduce unemployment and create wealth.