Abura Asebu Kwamankese

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Hon. Job Acquah Markin

Location:

The district is bounded on the north by the Assin District, west by the Cape Coast Municipality and Twifo-Hemang-Lower Denkyira District and on the east by the Mfantsiman District.

Size:
Land Area - 352sqkm
Number of settlements - 258

District Capital: Abura Dunkwa

Physical Features: Topography: Low-lying and undulating Elevation in most parts is under 80 meters above sea level

Climate
Rainfall: Two rainy seasons - major and minor seasons. Major season (April - July) and minor season (October-November)
Annual rainfall figures average 135cm. The lowest rainfall being Humility: 100cm, and highest 170cm.

Temperature: The district has relatively mild temperatures raging between 23oc and 28oc

Humidity: Around 70%

Vegetation: Southern part of the district is mainly thin scrub to dense scrub stretching to Asebu area. Kakum National Park (a tropical rainforest) stretches to the northwestern part of the district. The rest of the district is made up of the secondary thick bushes with isolated ?Onyaa? trees and other small sized diameter trees.

Demographic Data:

Population-90,093 (year 2000)

Percentage distribution (male-female) - Male 47.2%, Female 52.2%.

Population growth rate-2.0%

Number of settlements-258

Population of Major towns(2000)

  • Moree - 17,761
  • Abura Dunkwa - 8,225
  • Abakrampa - 4,771
  • Amosima - 3,225
  • Asebu - 2,997

Occupational Distribution Of Labour Force

74% of the labor force (ALF) within the district are employed by the agricultural sector.
Industries employ only 4% of the ALF in the district.
Services and commerce employ the rest of the 22%of the ALF


Main Economic Activities

Farming, fishing, agro-processing, commerce and services and recently medium scale gold mining.

Agriculture:

Within the district, citrus cultivation is the most prominent.

Agro-Processing:

  • Processing of palm oil
  • Citrus processing

Fishing:

The district has the shortest coastal strip along the Gulf of Guinea. The most important fishing community in the district is Moree, which occupies 3.4km out of the 5km strip of the coast of the district.

  • Moree is the center for marine fishing along the West African Coast with about 370 registered sea worthy canoes.
  • An annual catch of 13,000 metric tons is recorded according to Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
  • Fishing stands out as the most Important single economic activity. Moree, the district?s only coastal community has a high reputation of being the center of marine fishing community in the whole of West Africa. (Investment Opportunities exist in)
  • The export of exotic fish e.g.. Lobsters, Fish farming
  • The establishment of cold storage and fish preservation facilities.

Mining And Quarrying:

The district has kaolin/pig deposit, which could be mined for the manufacture of emulsion and oil paints.

The district has large quantities of sand, useful for construction works.

The Birim rock which underlie the district consist of granite formations of good quality, which can be quarried for road construction, building industry. There are Gold deposit at Abura Gyabrnkrom.

Local Administration

  • Number of Constituencies -1
  • Area of Council - 6
  • Town Councils - 2
  • Urban Councils - Nil
  • No. of Electoral Areas - 30
  • Unit Committees - 92

Social And Economic Infrastruture

  • Health
  • Educational institutions
  • Water Supply
  • Post and Telecommunication
  • Power supply
  • Banking Services

Health:

  • Towns with hospitals - 1
  • Towns with health centers -1

Moree

  • Towns with clinics - 2

Abakrampa

Asuansi

  • Number of Doctors -1
  • Number of Medical Assistants -1
  • Number of Nurses - 29
  • Number of Paramedics - 50

Water Supply:

Portable water in the district include pipe-borne, boreholes and hand dug wells.

Communities with access to pipe-borne include Abura Dunkwa, Abakrampa, Moree and Ekrofu

Post And Telecommunication:

Number of telephone installations in the district is twenty-six (26)

  • Abura Dunkwa - 16
  • Moree - 3
  • Asebu - 1
  • Edumfa - 1
  • Asuansi - 2
  • Abakrampa - 1
  • Enyinabrim - 1

Town With Postal Services

  • Moree
  • Asebu
  • Abakrampa
  • Nyanfek
  • Ekroful
  • Aboase

Road Network:

The asphalted road stretching from Yamoransa to Fosu and beyond passes through the district. The Yamoransa Takoradi road.

Banking Facilities:

Towns with banks include:

Abura Dunkwa - Ghana Commercial Bank, Akoti Rural Bank and Nyankumasi Ahenkro Rural Bank

Moree - Kakum Rural Bank, Mfantsiman Rural Bank

Abakrampa - Kakum Rural Bank

Tourism:

The District has unique tourist features which when developed and packaged well would fetch a lot of revenue. Among them Are:

  • Fort Nassaw at Moree
  • Rock Deposits in the Sea at Moree, believed to once have been Human Beings.

Beautiful Festivals

  • Odumkwa Festival at Abura Dunkwa on Easter Sundays
  • Amoakyer Afahye at Abakrampa in April
  • Kae-kro at Asebu on 25the Nov.
  • Okyir Festival at Edumfa in Oct.
  • Abangye Festival in Moree during the week of August
  • Apayem Festival at Moree during the first week of Sept.
  • Asebu Amanfi Stool, a Rock which is carrying footprints and fingerprints of Asebu Amanfi, the founder of Asebu.

Investment potentials in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese district

Investment Opportunities:

  • Agriculture
  • Fishing
  • Mining and Quarrying
  • Tourism
  • Agro-processing

Agriculture:

  • The establishment of oil plantations
  • The establishment of citrus plantations (the district is the leading producer of citrus in the Central Region)
  • Larger production of cash crops (i.e. Cashew, pineapples, cocoa, coffee) for export.

Agro-Processing:

  • The most important agro-processing industry in the district is the Fruit and flavour Ltd., at Asebu.
  • The company processes lime fruits into concentrated limejuice and distilled lime oil.

Tourism:

Investment Opportunities also exist in the packaging and development of the tourist attractions in the district

Incentives For Investors:

  • The Assembly will lead investors to negotiate for acquisition of land and acquire proper tenancy terms and documentation in the e interest of both the landowner and the investor (2000 acres of land available for investors).
  • Exemptions form payment of property and other local taxes for periods ranging form 3-5 years depending on the priority of the sector and the scale of investment capital. Availability of services of district Investment Promotion and business Advisory Office to promote and advice on the business of investors in the district.
  • Availability of options for 100% direct ownership with private investors of in joint ventures with the District Assembly.
  • Availability of tractor support services form the District Assembly to investors in the farming sector.
  • Land, power and water requirements can all be easily dealt with in the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese district.
  • Communication services are available with network for international connections.
  • The District capital, Abura Dunkwa enjoys proximity to Accra the capital of Ghana and Cape Coast the capital of Central region where the banking and insurance sectors provide all types of international services.

 


  
 

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