Road Network

The district has a total road network of about 280.43km. About 130.63km are engineered roads and only 43.8km, representing 33.53% are motorable. Transportation is one of the major challenges in the district.

Travelers from the district capital and other towns in the district have to board tricycles popularly known as Motor KIA, motorbike or foot to the nearest places such as Bunkpurugu, Najong No.1 or Napkanduri, all in the Bunkpurugu/Nakpanduri District to board commercial cars to their destinations.

Those travelling to Accra, Kumasi, Sunyani, Techiman, etc have to wait on market days or some specific weekdays for available means. This is as a result of the poor road network in the district.

Energy

There is inadequate connectivity of electricity to the communities, public institutions (e.g., CHPS Compounds, Schools, etc.). Only nine (9) out of the one hundred and fifteen communities in the district are connected to the national grid. This represents 7.83% connectivity.

Those that are even lucky to be connected to the national grid have to spend more on transportation in order to buy power from NEDCO/VRA Offices outside the district.

Market Centres

The District is largely considered as an agrarian economy .The district has two major markets in Jimbale and Nasuan respectively which when developed can boost the Internal Generated Fund (IGF) for the district and it will go a long way to supplement the Central Government Transfers. Both Markets have a Seven-day market cycle which plays very important role in the local economy. Commodities traded ranges from foodstuffs, livestock and manufactured goods.

Other agriculture related activities are (agro-processing – pito brewing, sheabutter extraction, groundnut oil extraction, rice processing, dawadawa processing etc.). These Markets attract a lot of traders from far and near. For instance, traders from Bawku, Bolga, Garu, Tempane, etc all in the Upper East Region come to purchase food stuff, livestock among others for resale back at homes.

The Markets also record traders from Gushiegu and Chereponi, both in the Northern Region and Togo, a neighboring country.

The markets do not have convenient places for traders to sit and sell their goods. The roads linking to these markets are at the state of deplorable. During raining season, roads linking to the markets are not motorable.