{"id":650342,"date":"2019-07-04T20:52:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T20:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Kobina Kurentsir Sam<br\/><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nSekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) has inaugurated one of the\ngovernment\u2019s flagship programme, Planting for Exports Rural and Development\n(PERD) with distribution of three"},"modified":"2019-07-04T20:52:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T20:52:42","slug":"stma-distributes-3500-coconut-seedlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/04\/stma-distributes-3500-coconut-seedlings\/","title":{"rendered":"STMA Distributes 3,500 Coconut Seedlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kobina Kurentsir Sam<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nSekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) has inaugurated one of the<br \/>\ngovernment\u2019s flagship programme, Planting for Exports Rural and Development<br \/>\n(PERD) with distribution of three thousand five hundred (3,500) seedlings of<br \/>\ncoconut to farmers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Metro Chief<br \/>\nExecutive, Anthony Kobina Kurentsir Sam indicated that the PERD programme was<br \/>\naimed at achieving the President\u2019s vision of making agriculture economically<br \/>\nviable and to bring about good financial returns to the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added that the<br \/>\nAssembly intends to cultivate and distribute twenty thousand (20,000) coconut<br \/>\nand five thousand palm oil seedlings to farmers for free.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nSekondi-Takoradi Mayor hinted that the Assembly opted for the cultivation of<br \/>\nthe two crops in view of their economic potentials to the farmers and the<br \/>\nnation as a whole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore,<br \/>\nadmonished the youth to take advantage of the venture to get them<br \/>\nemployed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He reminded the<br \/>\nbeneficiaries that, personnel from the Agriculture department of the assembly<br \/>\nwould be visiting their farms periodically to monitor how they were maintaining<br \/>\nthe seedlings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He commended all<br \/>\nthe participating farmers for accepting to be part of the programme and urged<br \/>\nthem to make good use and take advantage of all government policies and<br \/>\nprogrammes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan<br \/>\nDirector of Agriculture, Daniel Bentum Essel indicated that the Assembly<br \/>\nrecognized the economic benefits of the two crops hence their selection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added that the<br \/>\nAssembly was cultivating more coconut seedlings because majority of the<br \/>\nregistered farmers were interested in the coconut than the palm oil.<\/p>\n<p>He also assured<br \/>\nthe participating farmers that his outfit was having adequate personnel to<br \/>\nsupport and give them all the necessary technical advice to improve the farms.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the<br \/>\nbeneficiaries, John Arhin, a member of the assembly, thanked the Assembly and<br \/>\nthe government for the PERD programme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that<br \/>\nthe programme would ultimately help farmers to improve their finances.<\/p>\n<p>He assured the Assembly that the assembly members would cooperate with the Agriculture extension officers to ensure proper maintenance of the crops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kobina Kurentsir Sam The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) has inaugurated one of the government\u2019s flagship programme, Planting for Exports Rural and Development (PERD) with distribution of three thousand five hundred (3,500) seedlings of coconut to farmers.\u00a0 The Metro Chief Executive, Anthony Kobina Kurentsir Sam indicated that the PERD programme was aimed at achieving the President\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":650343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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