Enhancing and easing cassava processing among rural farmers, three famer-based associations have received cassava dough and gari processing machines from the Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Assembly, a project facilitated by the Business Advisory Center (BAC)
Three associations: Feefee Farmers, Abuben Farmers and Oborpa Farmers in a short ceremony at the fore court of the Assembly were presented with 3 cassava dough and gari processing machine each.
Addressing the recipients and the gathering, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the area Hon Simon Tetteh said, the presentation of the equipments were in line with President Akuffo Addo’s quest to boost the local economy through the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Business Advisory Center (BAC) and the Rural Enterprise Program.
The installation of the machines, the assembly chief hoped, would improve the local economy as well as create jobs for the teeming youth in the various communities.
He expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the president for the support and hoped that they are well maintained to serve their intended purpose.
A representative of the Nyemisuom Farmers Association from Abuben, Teye Felix said the equipment would serve many cassava farmers in the Abuben community in the processing of their produce for gari and cassava dough.
The equipment is expected to provide relief to the farmers who faced difficulties in the processing of their produce.
The machines would not only serve the various Farmer-Based Organizations but farmers in the respective communities.
Mr. Teye Felix however appealed for more of the machines as there were more farmers in the community to depend on the only one available.
The farmers however appealed for the construction of their roads as to boost the transportation of their produce from the farms to the market centers.
