Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President and Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has promised to institute mechanisation centres in every district to help boost agriculture across the country. According to him, over 60 per cent of Ghana's population were into farming and that the country could only progress when agriculture was given a major boost through sustainable interventions. The Vice President said this at Adabokrom in the Bia East district capital, as part of his three-day campaign tour of the Western North Region. Dr Bawumia explained that the district mechanisation centres would help give out tractors and other farming equipment to farmers to help improve their yield at the local level. 'President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has done a lot for this country, and I have prepared myself to take up the mantle to continue the good works of the President,' he said. He, thus, asked the electorate to vote massively for him as the next President and Nicholas Yayin Niper as the next Member of Parlia ment for Bia East for continuous and accelerated development in the area. Nana Afua Henewaa, Queen mother of Adabokrom, on behalf of the traditional authorities commended the government for the numerous infrastructure development in the area. The queen mother lauded the government's cocoa rehabilitation programme, and appealed to the Vice President to ensure the completion of the Agenda 111 projects at Adabokrom. She also appealed to the Dr Bawumia to set up an agricultural college in the area when elected as president on December 7. Source: Ghana News Agency