The MCE presenting one of the seedlings to a farmer
THE Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region has distributed 9,000 mango seedlings to farmers in the area.
The project is under the Ghana Commercial Agricultural Project (GCAP) which is being run in partnership with the Crop Research Institute in Kumasi.
Having assumed office in 2017, the Akufo-Addo government has been distributing commercial crop seedlings for free in a bid to expand agriculture to serve local factories.
The MCE, Simon Kweku Tetteh, who distributed the seedlings, said there were 6,000 more seedlings to be distributed.
He said under another initiative called Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD), some farmers in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality received 32,000 mango seedlings to help them expand their farms.
The Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Director of Agric, Godswill Komla Glante, assured the beneficiaries of constant agricultural extension services to help them produce more.
At Somanya, the Yilo Krobo Municipality also disburses about 30,000 mango seedlings to 175 mango farmers in the area.
FROM Daniel Bampoe, Koforidua