Kumawu Paramount Chief offers large lands for development projects

The Paramount Chief of Kumawu, Barima Sarfo Tweneboah Koduah, has released 200,000 hectares (500,000 acres) of land to the Sekyere Kumawu District Assembly for the execution of various development initiatives.

The parcel of land which stretches from Drobonso to Temante was to help in the implementation of the various development initiatives of the government as a means of complementing government’s effort at creating jobs and improving the economy.

Projects to benefit from the land donation include the government’s planting for food and jobs, planting of cassava to feed an ethanol factory to be established at Kumawu before the end of the year, cotton plantations peanuts and other plants.

Others include the establishment of well-planned animal husbandry and poultry projects.

The District Chief Executive for Sekyere Kumawu, Mr Samuel Addae Agyekum, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic, eulogized the Paramount Chief of Kumawu for the gesture which he said would go a long way to support the development of the area.

He said with the availability of land, the assembly was going to look for investors locally and abroad.

Collaboration

The DCE said the assembly was liaising with Kumawu Development and Investment Trust, a local NGO, to make judicious use of the land to ensure that various investors have access to the land to undertake their operations.

This he said, would not only create jobs for the local people but increase economic activities in the area and the nation as a whole.

He announced that the assembly has registered 30 poultry farmers who have expressed interest in moving to the area to operate due to the availability of land.

Mr Agyekum explained that the registration of the poultry farmers follow the signing of a memorandum of understanding with a Chinese firm which was ready to establish a hatchery in the area to serve poultry farmers.