COCOBOD distributes 123,360 coffee seedlings to farmers

The Seed Production Division of COCOBOD, in
collaboration with the Dormaa Central Municipal Assembly, has distributed
123,360 coffee seedlings to 226 farmers in the municipality at a cost of GH¢10,000.00.
The beneficiary communities of the
seedlings for the third quarter, under Government’s Planting for Export and
Rural Development, were Benekwakrom, Asunsu Number Two, Agyemankrom, Asunsu
Number One, Asikasu, Kosane, Benekrom, Nsesereso, Nsuhia, Antwirifo.
The rest were Maasu, Manteware,
Danyame, Kokorasua, Kuren, Koradaso, Twumkrom, Ahiresu and Ahogono.
Mr Drissa Ouattara, the Dormaa
Central Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), said this at the Assembly’s final
ordinary session at Dormaa Ahenkro in the Bono Region.
He said the Ministry of Food and
Agriculture had also distributed cocoa fertilisers and pesticides against
swollen shoot, black pod, and Akate diseases to the farmers.
The MCE expressed the hope for
bumper harvest in all crop growing areas due to the conducive weather
conditions and control of the fall army worm and other pest invasion.
Mr Ouattara said as at August 31,
the total Internally Generated Fund (IGF) stood at GH¢612,457.00 out of the
approved budget estimate of GH¢534,766.00 representing 76.03 per cent of the
annual budget of GH¢971, 805.00.
He said the total expenditure for
the same period was GH¢421,347.80 representing 78 per cent with a surplus of
GH¢117, 819.48.
The
Assembly would enroll Electronic Billing and Payment system next year to
enhance revenue mobilisation and reduce leakages to the barest minimum, the MCE
said.
He said the major challenge was the
heaps of refuse in most of the towns including Koraso, Amasu, Atesikrom, Stadium
and Aboabo Number One and Four and called for the early release of the District
Assembly’s Common Fund to clear the refuse.
He appealed to traditional authorities
to allocate land for solid and liquid waste management and disposal.
“The assembly
would endeavour to carry out its programmes and activities based upon the
Medium Term Development Plan for the overall development of the municipality,”
he said.
He called on stakeholders to unite to fast track the development of the area adding; “The assembly and the municipality as a whole can only develop in an atmosphere devoid of divisiveness and rancor.”