The Upper Denkyira East Municipal is one of the seventeen Administrative Districts of the Central Region. It lies within latitudes 5°. 30’ and 6°. 02’ north of the equator and longitudes 1° W and 2° W of the Greenwich Meridian.
It shares common boundaries with Bibiani - Anhwiaso Bekwai and Amansie West Districts on the north, Wassa Amenfi West and Wassa Amenfi East Districts on the northwest and west respectively, Twifo-Hemang-Lower Denkyira and Assin North Municipal on the south, Obuasi Municipal on the southeast and Amansie Central on the northeast.
The Upper Denkyira East Municipal covers a total land area of 1700 square kilometers, which is about 17% of total land area of the Central Region.
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The leadership of the Dunkwa-on-Offin District of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has cautioned the Upper Denkyira East Municipal Assembly to stop with immediate effect the encroachment of its land.
SOCIAL : Central Region MMDAs to get 200 boreholes/sanitation facilities Thirteen Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in the Central Region are to benefit from the construction of 200 boreholes, eight small town pipe systems, eight limited mechanized water distribution systems as well as some institutioz`nal KVIPs.
TALENSI-NABDAM: Minister declares 29th April as clean up day. The declaration by the president to rid the country of filth and his persistent reminder to all and sundry to adapt a healthy lifestyle for a clean Ghana seems to be gaining prominence all over the country.
UPPER DENKYIRA EAST : Health Director warns of use of Cutotec for abortion Dr. Kwabena Sarpong, Municipal Director of Health Services of Upper Denkyira East, bemoaned the widespread abuse of “cutotec”, a drug used in controlling bleeding after delivery, by some teenage and adolescent girls in the area to abort unwanted pregnancies.
(DUNKWA-ON-OFFIN) UPPER DENKYIRA EAST : Health Assistants School get support The Head of Cocoa at OLAM Ghana Limited, Mr Eric A. Botwe has said it is the hope of players in the cocoa industry that the 1.5 billion dollar facility raised by the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) for the purchase of cocoa would generate a lot of employment in the country.
The rural nature of the municipal indicates that poverty reduction interventions in the municipal have refocused on rural development strategies, especially the promotion of agriculture, marketing, feeder road improvements, the provision of basic social and economic infrastructure as well as community empowerment.
We have arable land that is about 75,626 hectares.However, only about 30,250.4 hectares are currently being cultivated. The average farm size is two acres but there are relatively large farms, ... more »
