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The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Yilo Krobo Constituency in the Eastern Region, Albert Tetteh Nyakotey, has lauded the Information for Natural Resources for Clean Agricultural Technologies (INFoCAT) Project for installing solar-powered gari processing machines (DAS Portable Biogas Plant) at Namusi, one of the farming communities in his constituency.
“I have been looking for collaboration to develop my constituency. I think God’s time is the best, as my wish has started coming to pass. Collaboration is good, and I am very grateful to the benefactors for their support and collaboration, which will greatly enhance gari production in my constituency.
“As their Member of Parliament, I cannot do it alone because of the number of people in the constituency, and that is why when organisations, individuals, as well as civil society organisations come to my constituency to help in one way or another, I become excited,” Mr Nyakotey stated.
The Yilo Krobo MP made the remarks at a handing over ceremony of the facility provided through the United Nations University (UNU), to the people of the Namusi community last Tuesday.
The project, which the MP also supported with the roofing, is a special programme that showcases and pilots youth-designed cleaning technology solutions developed by young people to address the challenges faced by women farmers with small holdings.
The plant converts cassava peels and wastewater from pressing into biogas, offering four key benefits: waste management, clean cooking, electricity generation and bio-fertiliser production for a circular economy.
Mr Nyakotey said he was very grateful to INFoCAT for choosing one of the Yilo Krobo communities as a beneficiary of their project, pledging to continue with the collaboration for other areas in the constituency to benefit from it.
He told the women that it was a good facility that, if well maintained, would ease the difficulties they had faced for many years in processing their gari and would also reduce the money they used to spend in the business.
He said he was going to ensure that at least not fewer than 10 of such facilities were replicated in other cassava farming communities in the traditional area to put more money into their pockets.
“The government’s vision and plan is that we should not even import food from outside the country.
And so, the government’s overall plan is to reduce poverty in every community throughout the country.
Therefore, having this facility here aligns with what the government wants to achieve by producing quality gari, selling and putting money into your pockets,” he added.
He advised women cassava farmers who used to send their cassava to the market but could not get buyers to see it as a thing of the past, and make judicious use of the facility.
