Farmers in Afram Plains to expand cassava and maize production

Farmers in the Afram Plains have been urged to prepare raw materials to feed the proposed cassava factory and piggery being constructed under the 'One District, One Factory' (1D1F) programme in the area.

Mr Jeffrey Konadu-Addo, the Eastern Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Tease in the Kwahu Afram Plains South District of the Eastern Region, said the District would be benefitting from three projects under the 1D1F which included a feed factory, cassava processing factory and a piggery.

He, therefore, urge the farmers to expand their cassava and maize production to serve as raw materials for the factories.

He said the piggery when completed could raise up to 2,000 piglets and would engage over 200 youth in the area to help to reduce the high rate of rural-urban migration facing the District.

Mr Konadu- Addo said the feed factory would be producing about five tonnes of feed daily from the waste materials from the cassava factory to feed the pigs.

Mr Konadu-Addo, therefore, urged farmers especially, small scale farmers to take advantage of the factories to produce on large scale to enable them better their standard of living because there would be a ready market for their produce.