The Agricultural Department of Ahanta West Municipal Assembly on Tuesday 20th September,2022 distributed seedlings to farmers at the Assembly grounds.The programme is known as ‘PERD’ Planting for Export and Rural Development, as one of the Government of Ghana’s Flagship Programme where farmers are supplied with high yielding improve seedlings for planting to improve farmers livelihood and their standard of living.
This year, the Department was supplied with 40,000 Oil Palm Seedlings and was distributed among 647 farmers (M – 453 & F- 194). The Department also distributed 7,000 coconut seedlings to 45 farmers (M – 38 & F – 9)
Below were pictures of the event:
