Foodstuffs Rotting On Farms for Lack of Transportation

Large quantities of foodstuffs locked up in farms at Nkorang, a farming community near Nkawiepanin in the Atwima District are rotting due to lack of vehicles to cart them.

Drivers have refused to ply the five-kilometre road due its deplorable state.

Mr Kusi Afiriyie, a member of the local unit committee, told the GNA at Nkawie Last week that the road is in such a bad state that vehicles no longer ply it.

The farmers have refused to engage in any further economic activities because their produce cannot be carted to the marketing centres.

Mr Afiriyie said persistent appeals to the Atwima District Assembly and the Department of Feeder Roads to help reconstruct the road had fallen on deaf ears.

He has, therefore, reiterated his appeal to the assembly, Member of Parliament for the area, and Department of Feeder Roads to urgently help reconstruct the road, which is virtually abandoned.