TCSPP successful under year one – Project Coordinator – Skyy Power FM

The project coordinator for the Twin-Cities in Sustainable Partnership Project (TCSPP), Mr Isaac Aidoo says one of their major success concerning the project is the establishment of a demonstration farm to train smallholder vegetable farmers, unemployed youth, Persons With Disabilities and Vulnerable Households in urban agriculture.

Speaking exclusively to Skyy News on the sidelines of a press briefing on the progress of the project, Mr Aidoo said the medium-term goal of the Sekondi-Takoradi-Metropolitan Assembly is creating employment and promoting the social-economic development of the metropolis which they situated the Twin-Cities in Sustainable Partnership Project in the framework.

He said the demonstration farm was one of their main targets for year one and they have been able to set it up and go through the first crop cycle for the greenhouse demonstration farm.

He said, “Our major success within a year period is the establishment of a demonstration farm to boost urban agriculture and it was our main target for the year.”

“Last year, 174 people participated in the training at our demonstration farm, 40 of them were specifically selected from institutions like Senior High Schools, Sekondi Prisons, Agriculture offices, nurses and others and the remaining 134 were taken through open farming.”

The Twin Cities in Sustainable Partnership Project is a 3-year project being implemented in the cities of Sekondi-Takoradi (Ghana) and Palermo (Italy) funded by the European Union (EU).

Mr Aidoo said the project also has a cultural component and they are planning on creating an enabling environment for tourists to visit and see what Sekondi-Takoradi has to offer to boost the economy of the metropolis.

The culture component is to promote the beautiful culture we have in Sekondi-Takoradi… When people come in as tourists to see what we have, they will sleep in a hotel, use our taxis and spend money here which will boost the economy so we are trying to use culture as a vehicle to attract investors in the metropolis.”