Sekyere Kumawu to invest in Tourism, Agriculture

The Sekyere Kumawu District Assembly is to invest heavily in Agriculture and tourism to improve the socio-economic growth of the area to raise the standard of living of the people in the area.

The District Chief Executive, Mr. Samuel Addae Agyekum announced this at a Town Hall meeting at Kumawu on Monday.

According to him, the investment in the Agriculture and Tourism sectors is intended to bring industrial development to absorb most of the unemployed youth in the district.

He revealed that tourism has become a new discovery area of development for which the Assembly intends to focus on the sector to attract more people and investors to the area.

According to the DCE, the Assembly has acquired about 6,000 hectares of land for cashew production and other crops like Pawpaw and plantains to ensure that the Assembly has realised its objective of becoming the beacon in agriculture in the Ashanti region and the country as a whole.

He stated that, the Sekyere Kumawu district is rated third in cashew production in the Ashanti region and has embarked on training of some members of the disabled in the Bee keeping production and other skills development as well as investing about GH¢31,040.00 and GH¢16,080.00 into health and education in 2018, in assisting 95 and 54 males and females respectively.

He said the Assembly also invested about GH¢14,615,00; GH¢21,383.00, GH¢32,821 in education, health and economic empowerment in 2019, which benefited 23 and 10 persons respectively.

The DCE also disclosed that, the Assembly has invested GH¢5,200.00 in the training of 80 masters with one hot meal daily to enable them train other young people in skills while five youth were selected into the Rebecca Foundation to be trained as electricians and plumbers.

He disclosed that the district has received its share in the government’s One District One Factory initiative with the establishment of a machine Resource Center to employ over 104 youth.

The machine Resource Center when completed, would manufacture Bolt and nuts, Fufu pounding machines, Gari processing machines and Palm Oil.

The DCE also said two separate warehouses are under construction to store 2,000 metric tons of maize, Cassava and Cashews.

Mr. Collins Ntim, Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, assured that the government was determined to modernise agriculture to achieve the industrial economy status, hence the introduction and investment in programmes and policies like One District One Factory, Planting For Food and Jobs, Planting for Export and Rearing for Export.

He said in order to ensure sustainable raw materials to address the problems affecting the policies, the government is into provision of Oil Palm, Mango, Coconut and extension officers.

The Minister said about 80 districts have been validated for Oil Palm production, 35 for Coconuts, 15 for Coffee and 15 Rubber plantations  towards modernizing  agriculture.

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