The Tree Crop Development Authority has donated 15,000 coconut seedlings to the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipal Agriculture Office to be presented to farmers in the Municipality.

Mr Isaac Kwadwo Buabeng, the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Municipal Chief Executive, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said the provision of the seedlings would enhance the economic activities of the farmers.

He mentioned some of the beneficiary communities are Asikabew, Duayeden, Noka, Otukwadwo, Panpanso No.1, Obredumah, Ningo Teshie, Asiyaw, Fotobi, Akwamu and Akpeteshie.

Mr Buabeng said the fruits of the hybrid coconut could be harvested in three years after planting.

He expressed profound gratitude to the Tree Crop Development Authority for supplying the seedlings to support the Municipality in the Planting for Export and Rural Development initiative of the government.

Mrs. Perpetual Decker, the Municipal Director of Agriculture, said the field workers of the Department would support the project to assist the farmers in lining, pegging and planting.

She said the Assembly and the Department were planning to establish a factory to provide easy access to market for the farmers, which would create job opportunities for the youth and help the Assembly to earn foreign income through export.

Madam Mary Addo, a farmer from Asikabew, who received the coconut seedlings on behalf of the farmers expressed gratitude to the Authority for the project and called on the youth in the area to take farming as a career to earn a living.