Dormaa Municipality to grow hectares of cereal, tomato

Twapeasie (B/A) June 15, GNA - The Dormaa Municipality is to cultivate a total of 300 hectares of cereals and tomato, this year, under the government's on-going block farming projects.

Three hundred youth in the municipality would also be engaged to cultivate unspecified acreage of land with selected tree species to re-afforest the fast depleting forest cover in the municipality. Mr. Vincent Oppong Asamoah, Municipal Chief Executive, said these when he commissioned a 16-seater Aqua Privy place of convenience for the people of Twapeasie.

The facility, which cost GHC 26,340, was funded from the assembly's share of the Common Fund. Mr. Asamoah urged residents to handle the facility with utmost care in order to elongate its lifespan.

He reminded parents to refrain from engaging their children in worst forms of labour but make more efforts at sending them to school. Nana Adoma Ababio, Chief of Twapeasie, thanked the government for tarring the Dormaa-Ahenkro-Gonokrom trunk road, which passes through Twapeasie but appealed through the assembly to the Roads and Highways Ministry to urgently construct speed ramps to control speed to offset calamities. He also appealed to the assembly to assist the community's project to extend electric power from the national grid into homes and public places for consumption.