By Justina Paaga, GNA
Daboase (WR), April 5, GNA - The Wassa East District Assembly has registered a total of 1,940 farmers to take part in the 2018 “Planting for Food and Jobs” programme.
This consist of 1,435 males and 505 females.
In addition 184 Communal Groups (“Nnoboa Teams”) have also been formed in the district to assist in the combating of fall army worm infestation.
Mr Wilson Arthur, District Chief Executive (DCE) announced this at the first ordinary meeting of the third session of the Assembly at Daboase in the Western Region.
He said the district was also recruiting 234 people as mass cocoa pruning workers all in a quest to create jobs, adding that 100,000 hybrid cocoa seedlings had been given to farmers to improve yield.
Mr Arthur said a quantity of chemicals had been distributed to a total of 2,400 farmers while a total of 477 youth have been recruited as pollinators and were currently being processed.
On the One District Factory, the DCE said the district selected a quarry project and cassava starch processing factory, and that both projects had passed the approval stage, “ with regard to the quarry project , Al-Mega company has been selected and approved and is ready to take-off with Merchant Bank ready to finance it”.
He said unemployment continued to be one of the biggest challenges facing the district and that the government through the Youth Employment Agency was providing jobs to help reduce the unemployment rate , adding that the district was currently implementing, community policing assistant, community health workers, E-Health Technical Assistant, Fire Prevention assistant, community education teaching assistant, Environmental protection offices and youth Arabic education modules.
Touching on social interventions he said the district LEAP programme has seen an expansion and that 30 more communities had been selected in the latest expansion and stated that the first LEAP payment of GH¢23,594,00.00 for this year had been made in all the 13 beneficiary communities.
He said the common fund allocation for persons with disabilities had been released to the Assembly and it was currently making preparation for payments to be made,
On water and sanitation, the DCE said their quest to provide potable water was on course and that work had started on two out of seven proposed mechanised boreholes, in addition Community Water and Sanitation Agency had selected three communities for small town water system.
With regards to security, the DCE said chieftaincy disputes and illegal mining activities continued to be a major threat to the security of the district and that the operation vanguard at the local level to flash out illegal miners operating on the Pra river near Otodum community had been able to destroy 25 changfang machines.
The DCE said a number of development projects including; the construction of a market complex, CHPs compound, Out Patient Department, drilling of boles and nurses quarters were at various levels of completion.
Mr Wilson Arthur said the district assembly was able to mobilise GH¢543,375.13 of Internally Generated Fund (IGF) representing 91.15 percent of the budgeted figure of GH¢596,110.00 for the 2017 fiscal year.
GNA
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