District Chief Executive, (DCE) of Akatsi North, Dr. Prince Amuzu has cut sod for the construction of an ultramodern central market for the district.
The project is to be funded with the district share of government’s One Million Dollars per Constituency program.
The market will include 20 seater open market sheds, 15 unit lockable stores, a slaughter house, lorry-station, and a two unit kindergarten school block with ancillary facilities, drawing construction costs to about GHC 800,000.
The project which would be undertaken by Vislah Construction Works Limited, will include a ten seater solar powered water closet toilet facility, and a mechanized borehole.
The DCE said farming communities in the area will benefit from the market as it will boost economic activities and help the Assembly generate more Internally Generated Funds, (IGF).
He said food production in the district was on the increase, due to government’s Planting for Food and Jobs program, and that the market had been planned to suit an expanding food production industry.
Dr. Amuzu also said increased production has attracted two investors to the area seeking to establish tomato and pineapple processing factories under its One-District-One-Factory, (1D1F), initiative.
Adding that access roads to farming communities were being given the needed priority, and detailed a number of projects ongoing to make the district suitable for the impending industrialization program.
The event coincided with a first quarterly “Meet the Press” series, and the DCE enumerated a total of 27 development projects varying from school infrastructure, water, sanitation, health, and roads.
He said the district, which was investing in cashew and oil palm under the “Rearing for Export and Rural Development” program, has be given out 50,000 cashew seedlings to farmers for free.
A total of 2,520 seedlings of oil palm has been distributed, and added that pens had been constructed for goats and sheep in six communities in the district, an intervention which falls under the “Rearing for Food and Jobs”.
He said an improved revenue generator team had shot up IGF, which helped the Assembly provide the needed mediations in security, and tourism.
