The District Chief Executive for Builsa South Daniel Gariba has cut the sod for the construction of a warehouse in Fumbisi.
The facility is one of the five warehouses to be constructed in the Upper East Region to address post-harvest losses of farm produce in the area.
The warehouse will be used to store produce from the hundreds of farmers in Fumbisi and its neighboring communities.
The contract for the 1,000 metric tonne capacity warehouse project has been awarded to Asim Links Investment Limited is expected to be completed in six months.
The facility comes with, a bathing facility, a mechanized water system, resting room, changing room, lighting system, a fence system, an inner paved yard for parking of farm tracks and a seventy meters road to the facility.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Buffer Stock Company Limited Mr. Hanan Abdul-Wahab the project is among the first 30 warehouses to be built in the three regions in the north.
He added that a total of 80 warehouses would be built across the three regions in the north before the year 2020.
Builsa South District Chief Executive Daniel Gariba was optimistic that, the project when completed would address the exploitation of farmers, farm produce prices.
“Farmers will be able to store their farm produce at the warehouses when they prices are cheap and sell them later when the price of the produce increase thus increasing farmers income. It will also be a source of revenue for the assembly as farmers will be charged for storing their produce in the warehouse”.
The District Engineer Rufuth Teteth-Tsu , appeal to the contractor to use local artisans so that the community can also directly benefit from the construction before its completion.
Project manager of Asim Links Investment limited Mr. Adinan Doboo assured the assembly that, his outfit was committed to finishing the project on for beneficiary farmers to reap its enormous benefits.
President Nana Akufo-Addo addressing a durbar in Sandema during a two-day working visit to the Upper East Region disclosed that a total of Fifty (50) warehouses would be built by close of 2018 to address post-harvest losses of farm produce.
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By: Frederick Awuni/citinewsroom.com/Ghana