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Minister of Commerce and Industry, Alan K. Kyerematen.
The government’s commitment to transform small and medium-sized businesses to boost the nation’s economic sector is ongoing, said Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, the Minister of Commerce and Industry.
He said the government was determined to eradicate the unemployment canker, thereby building business resource centers to provide necessary assistance to entrepreneurs and business establishments.
This, together with One District-One Factory, aimed to increase employment and employment opportunities for young people to improve livelihoods and strengthen the economic sector.
Mr. Kyeremateng said this when he accompanied President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Saturday to commission a Business Resource Center in Bechem in the Tano Sur Municipality of the Ahafo Region.
The Minister of Commerce and Industry explained that 67 of the business resource centers were being built across the country and 37 were already completed and commissioned.
According to him, the others would be completed in October 2020.
He noted that the centers would not only provide support and guidance in awarding points to small and medium-sized businesses, but would also create employment opportunities for Ghanaians.
It is a Rural Business Program to guarantee quality and locally improved products and services, he added.
President Akufo-Addo, as part of his two-day working visit to the Ahafo region, inspected the construction of an artificial turf in Koforidua, near Duayaw Nkwanta, the 3.9 kilometers of roads from the city of Techire in construction and 8.7 kilometers of secondary roads from Techire to Adrobaa in the Municipality of Tano Norte.
Work on the road connecting various farming communities such as Baffourkrom, Akwaasua, Chiraa, Mankrang, Subriso, Sukuumu and Adrobaa to Duayaw Nkwanta, started in July 2019 and is expected to be completed in February next year.
Chairman Akufo-Addo encouraged Mr. Alex Boahene, CEO of Messrs Alexiboam Company Limited to accelerate and ensure that quality work is done on time to improve economic activities, as well as pedestrian and vehicle movement.
Speaking about agriculture in a durbar organized for the president and his entourage during a courtesy visit to Nana Boakye Tromo II, the supreme chief of Duayaw Nkwanta, Mr. Afriyie Akoto, the Minister of Agriculture asked the farmers to form groups and units in their respective communities.
He said that the government was creating a Council of Farmers that would contribute to the improvement and sustainability of the Sowing for Food and Jobs and Sowing for Export and Rural Development programs.
This, Akoto noted, would not only improve and facilitate the distribution of agricultural aids like fertilizers and improved seedlings to farmers, but would also help elicit farmers’ contributions and ideas in agricultural decision-making in general to help improve the agricultural sector.
Therefore, the government has hired and trained 2,700 agricultural extension agents to educate farmers on modernized agricultural practices to make farming a lucrative business.
