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Atwima-Mponua farmers exposed to new income sources

Farmers in the Atwima-Mponua District are being assisted to generate additional income to improve their livelihood under the Rural Enterprise Project (REP).

Date Created : 11/21/2013 12:00:00 AM : Story Author :

This is being done through training in grass-cutter rearing, mushroom farming, bakery and palm-oil processing.

Added to this is the introduction of best business practices and book keeping, to efficiently operate, these ventures.

More than 300 farmers had benefited and are also being supported with loans to undertake the economic activities.

Mr. James Tweneboa-Kodua, Head of Animal Science Department of the Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), who is leading the training, said it was a way to lift the rural poor out of poverty.

At one of the training sessions held at Otaakrom, he appealed to the trainees to form co-operatives and pool resources to enable them have a good slice of the market.

He reminded them to pay back loans granted them to help others to also enjoy the facility.

Mr. Nicholas Korley, the District Business Development Officer of the REP, which comes under the Business Advisory Centre (BAC), said out-of-school youth were also being targeted.

They would be aided to acquire skills in dressmaking and hairdressing.