Asutifi North records low registrations under the “Planting for food and jobs”

By Dennis Peprah, GNA

Kenyasi (B/A), Aug. 25, GNA – Only 190 people have registered under the government’s “Planting for food and Jobs” programme in the Asutifi District of the Brong-Ahafo Region says Mr Anthony Mensah, the District Chief Executive.

He said the figure was very discouraging, considering the number of unemployed youth in the area, and warned those engaged in illegal mining activities in the districts to halt such activities.

The Chief Executive urged the illegal miners in the local communities to see the programme as an alternative means of livelihood and register to benefit.

Mr Mensah said this when interacting with the chiefs and people of the District as a town hall organized by the District Assembly and Ministry of Information at Kenyasi, the district capital.

He said the “Planting for food and jobs” was among the several poverty reduction intervention programmes designed by the government to create wealth especially among the youth and enhance their socio-economic wellbeing.

Mr Mensah urged the teeming unemployed youth in the district to take advantage and register to benefit and engage in commercial farming as a business entity.

He said the programme was designed in such a way that interested young men and women would not need any capital to go into large scale farming.

Mr Mensah said the government needed the support from citizens to spur rapid socio-economic growth and national development and advised Ghanaians to avoid partisan politics and support the course of development.

GNA

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