Ejura-Sekyedumase district to benefit from MCA

Ejura (Ash), Jan. 17, GNA - The Ejura-Sekyedumase district is to benefit from the Millennium Challenge Account(MCA), which is expected to transform agriculture in the district.

Dr Joshua Ayarkwa, the District Chief Executive, who announced this, said the programme was expected to benefit farmers, especially the unemployed youth in the district who wanted to take to agriculture as a profession.

The DCE, who was speaking at a farmers' forum at Ejura, said apart from the provision of credit facilities to farmers, other components of the MCA were the provision of irrigation, storage and agro-processing facilities.

Dr Ayarkwa urged the farmers to form Farmer-Based Organisations to enable them to access assistance under the MCA to enhance agricultural activities in the district.

"Educational infrastructure, rural electrification, roads and other social amenities will tremendously be improved under the MCA", the DCE said.

He appealed to the government to assist the District's Industrialisation Project under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and President's Special Initiative by supporting the establishment of a maize processing factory which would provide guaranteed and fair market for maize and soya bean produced in the area.

Dr Ayarkwa said it was an undeniable fact that farmers do not get good value for their produce and often end up at great loss leading to high incidence of poverty and that with the setting up the factory, it will eventually increase the wealth of the peasant farmers and thereby reduce poverty levels in the district.