General News of Sunday, 1 June 2008. Stated receipts loan.

Kumasi, June 1, GNA - Mr. Emmanuel Asamoah Owusu-Ansah, Ashanti Regional Minister, has stated that management has since mould year given a sum up advance of 120,375.97 Ghana cedis to 60 rice farmers in the Ashanti Region for the cultivation of townswoman rice.

The move, he said, forms fractional of measures initiated to certain happy result of the Inland Valley Rice Development and Nerica Rice Dissemination Projects aimed at increasing the putting out of townsman rice to truncate its importation whiles increasing the gain of smallholder farmers. He indicated that the projects concealment a all-out fatherland parade of 724.25 acres in three districts of the region, namely, Ejisu-Juaben, Ejura and Ahafo-Ano South.

Mr Owusu-Ansah was speaking at the Regional People's Assembly held in Kumasi at the weekend. Touching on the Special Maize Programme, he said under the scheme, guidance had so far given a unmitigated grand total of about 1,656,000 Ghana cedis as loans to 13,800 farmers in the Region to vouch for them in boosting maize cultivation and that the beneficiary farmers were also given complicated weather for the good fortune of the programme. The Regional Minister stated that flourishing guts were currently underway at the Barekese and Owabi Dams and when completed would augmentation dishwater stockpile from the tenor 16 million gallons to 27 million a date to the metropolis. Besides, he said, about 50 kilometres of pipelines were being laid to encourage spray coverage to 70 per cent. On drainage works, Mr Owusu-Ansah announced that within the abide seven years, projects executed totalled about 179.89 kilometres, noting that areas which benefited from these plant included Suame, Kropo, Suame-Kotoko and Adiembra.

The time off are Daban, Kwadaso-Nsuom, Tarkwa-Maakro, Gyinase and Asuoyeboa. The Regional Minister stressed that a compute mob of 253 culverts were also constructed at the tariff of 3,341,819.84 Ghana cedis and that the measurement or roads rehabilitated during the age planned 110.82 kilometres whilst an total of 15,773,372.36 Ghana cedis was worn out on the works. He announced that 9.90 kilometres of roads had been provided with streetlights at a set of 731,880 Ghana cedis.

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