The Acting President of the Yilo Krobo Traditional Council, Osayem Tetteh Odorkor Tuumeh says he is counting on a more pronounced collaboration with government to establish Mango Processing facilities to arrest the mounting youth unemployment in the area.

At a durbar of chiefs and people of Somanya in the Yilo Krobo Traditional area to welcome President John Evans Atta Mills on his working visit to the Easern Region, Osayem Tuumeh acknowledged the widespread of mango cultivation in the entire Dangme area and implored government to initiate measures for the establishment of mango facilities in the area.

“We would appreciate the establishment of mango processing facilities in the area to encourage farmers to increase production and to create jobs for the teeming youth who are crying for employment”, he said.

Osayem Tuumeh was appreciative of the government for the introduction of fertilizer subsidy and requested that the quota for the area be increased which would consequently increase production.

He entreated the President to revisit the old question of development of the Accra Plains for the enormous “potentials it holds for economic salvation of the country through irrigation development.

On the provision of utility services and social amenities, the chief said, although the Eastern Region supplies some parts of the Greater Accra Region with water, the region was every so often denied water under the guise of breakdown of obsolete supplying equipment.

Osayem Tuumeh appealed for a facelift for the towns’ roads within the traditional area since most of the roads according to him had run bad as a result of the plying of heavy duty tracks loaded with limestone.

Ghanadistricts.com

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