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Wa Municipality scale up efforts to achieve food security

09.10.11

In a desire to achieve sustainable food security, about 1,406 farmers including 329 women in the Wa Municipality have cultivated 1,892 acres of maize this year through the block farming initiative.

The total cost of credit commitment in respect of ploughing, fertilizer and seed input to enable the Municipality to realize its agricultural sector objectives amounted to GH¢221,701.

Mr Yakubu Duogu, Wa Municipal Chief Executive, made this known in his report on the activities of the Assembly at the two-day Second Ordinary Meeting which ended on Thursday.

He said under the fertilizer subsidy policy, 78,835 bags of compound fertilizer, 33,670 bags of sulphate of ammonia and 1,100 bags of urea were received and sold at the approved subsidized prizes to farmers.

Mr Duogu said 8,000 animals comprising goats, sheep, pets and cattle were vaccinated against various diseases including anthrax and rabies.

Source: Ghana Business News

a.kitchen

09.10.11

If you could sketch a restaurant on a blank page to capture the dining spirit of late 2011, it might very well look a lot like a.kitchen.

The ambience would be laid-back and linen-free. The cafe windows would be swung open to the Center City streets beneath crisp black awnings, while inside, blond wood banquettes front a marble chef's counter that rings the lively open kitchen. And its mission? A modern hybrid space: part hotel breakfast cafe, part wine bar, part kitchen atelier, where the polished young crowd can scale up at whim from nibbles to a full-blown meal and the small plates sparkle with just enough vivid flavors to generate a serious foodie buzz.

At less than $20 a dish, each one toes the delicate line that defines the catchphrase "casual sophistication." It's an elusive notion, a tricky balance between simplicity and substance, affordability and high-end tastes. But as this new cafe-restau-lounge settles into the facade of the Korman's "aka" extended-stay hotel north of Rittenhouse Square, a.kitchen has dialed in that frequency (after early fine-tuning) with a pitch-perfect ear.

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer