The Tain District Assembly has distributed about 70,000 improved cashew seedlings to farmers in the district to improve cashew production.
The free distribution of the seedlings was in line with the government Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD) initiative aimed at decentralising the National Tree Crop Programme to promote rural economic growth and to also enhance the foreign exchange earning of the country.
The Assembly under the PERD initiative has been providing improved cashew seedlings to farmers in the District for the past three years.
In a remark at a brief ceremony to hand over the seedlings to the Department of Agriculture for onward distribution to farmers, the District Chief Executive, Ms Charity Akua Foriwaa Dwommoh, said the distribution was geared towards increasing cashew production and to also ensure supply of raw materials to feed a cashew factory in the district, which was built to augment the government’s industrialisation derive through the One District, One Factory initiative.
She said the agricultural sector is one of the areas that could provide income for the rural people and propel the growth of the economy.
She urged the farmers, especially the youth to take advantage of the various agricultural interventions initiated by the government to improve their livelihood.
Isaac Yeboah, ISD
