Ahanta West cries for good roads while benefitting from planting for food and jobs

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Farmers in Medinya in the Ahanta West District are applauding the government for the planting for food and jobs initiative.
The farmers are convinced they will now be able to have a market for their farm produce that normally rots due to the unavailability of a ready market.

But they also believe this laudable initiative of government will be meaningless if roads leading to productive sectors are not looked at.
The farmers say it will not be enough for government to concentrate only on the food and forget about how the food will get to the people it is intended for.

In an extensive interview  with some of the farmers, they reports that the area is abound in large expanse of arable land that can cultivate tonnes of cassava, plantain, rubber, palm fruits among others.
But the road leading to the community and the farms are in a very deplorable state.

“This is making it difficult for farmers to cart our goods to the market at the district capital of Agona Nkwanta. This is sad because Medinya supplies most of the okro and cocoa we consume in Ahanta West but due o the nature of road they are left to rot”

The farmers showed our reporter some of their farm produce that have gotten rotten because they could not send them to the market on time.
Assembly member for the area Stephen Quayson indicated the assembly is aware of their plight.

He says he has not had any response to the countless letters he has sent to the assembly for an intervention.

“Since the administration of the past DCE we have been writing series of letters to the assembly and I have also written to the assembly since Hon. Henriter was named as the DCE and am yet to receive a rely but am optimistic that the attention of  Hon. Henriter will  to be drawn to the state of our road”

The Medinya community is nursing 100 thousand cocoa seedlings under the planting for food and jobs programme

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