Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, Volta Regional Minister has cut the sod for commencement of work on construction of a Kente Village at Kpetoe in the Agotime-Ziope Distirct.
The GHC2.4 million project with a craft market is in line with “government’s one district, one factory” policy and expected to be turned into a kente Weaving factory after its completion in four years with a target on the international market.
The project would make it possible for clients to engage and buy directly from the over 2,000 active weavers in the district and reactivate the industry with focus on quality control.
Dr. Letsa described kente as a hidden treasure and expressed the hope that the facility would lift kente weaving into a higher pedestal and make the industry competitive.
He pledged the readiness of the Volta Regional Coordinating Council to ensure that the project was completed on schedule to help reduce unemployment and poverty in the area.
He commended the Agotime traditional area for keeping the kente weaving industry alive through the annual kente festival celebration and said the Kente Village would tap into the tourism potentials of the area and link the District to other parts of the world.
Nene Nuer Keteku III, Paramount Chief of Agotime in a speech read on his behalf said the Kente Village would project the cultural value of the royal fabric.
Mr Eddie Akottey, Chairman, 2017 Kente Festival Planning Committee said the project would “stem the rural-urban migration axis” in the District and tap into the commercial value of the Kente Festival celebration.
Agotime is said to have one of the largest concentration of kente weavers in the country, with the craft being a major source of livelihood for many families.
Source: GNA
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all those commenting here are fuuuuullls. what are the raw materials available for those in that village? do you expect them to put there different factory without raw materials in the village. kwaseasem kwa.
The npp is only interested in winning subsequent elections and not alleviating the suffering of Ghanaians. This is nothing but an avenue to create the impression that they are doing something for the volta region, though the project is already in operation.
In this technological era, npp still think Ghanaians are still ***barred word***. Even class one pupils in the area are aware that kente weaving has been their trade all these years and the factories are already in existence, so to try to support the industry there and claim its one district one factory project is a plain deceit. This is like going to komenda and expand sugar cane production and say you've built one sugar factory in the district, when everyone knows that there is sugar factory already running in the district. I hope Ghanaians are following this kind of deceit. This is what they would keep doing but thanks for the world being a global village, we will always get them through the internet.
Spot on comments here. The wind has been taken out of my sails.
Politicians never learn. Instead of exploring the naturally endowed resource to create other job opportunities in the district, they are feeding out the already existing one which is firmly established over decades. shame on this government, they have no shame. This is POLITRICK
Ooohoooo, the Agotime area already abounds with many Kente factories. Is this one going to have modern machines to produce the type of kente the Chinese are producing? That wud not be Kente. Kente is so unique and cannot be produced now with factory machines
Ffoolish propaganda ministet,