Profile of the Sene District of the Brong-Ahafo region

The Sene District was carved out of the Atebubu-Amantin District under Legislative Instrument 1481, 1989. The district has the largest land area, in the Brong Ahafo Region, of about 8,586.44 km2. It is bound to the east by the Volta Lake and Afram Plains, to the north by east Gonja, to the south by Sekyere east and to the west by the Atebubu-Amantin and Pru Districts in Brong-Ahafo Region.

Mission of the Sene District Assembly
The Sene District Assembly exists to improve the standards of living by collaborating with the communities and other stakeholders in the planning and implementation of policies within the national framework.

The leadership of the District is under Hon. Dominic Napare, the District Chief Executive and Mr. Yaw Adjei-Kankam, the District Co-ordinating Director.

Demographic Characteristics
The projected population of the district for 2010 stood at 98,371 with an average growth rate of 1.8% per annum. It is worth noting that the district can boast of a truly cosmopolitan, hospitable and culturally diversed population. The dominant tribes comprise Dwans, Inchumuru (Karachi), Ashantis, Ewes.
Sene is a sparsely populated district with 372 communities, of which 90 % are rural.

Resources availability and investment potentials
The district has vast, rich, well-drained, arable land with a double maxima rainfall pattern. This makes the soil suitable for the cultivation of crops like soya beans, cowpea, maize, groundnut, sunflowers, rice, and sorghum in large quantities.

The district is surrounded by the Sene River to the south- west and the Volta Lake to the east and south-east. It is drained by several tributaries. Presented to prospective investors are opportunities for aquaculture, cheap and ready labour, mechanised and irrigated farming of tomatoes, maize, carrot, pineapple, cabbage, sweet potatoes, soya beans, sunflowers and rice, for domestic and international markets.

Other investment opportunities which are abound in the district include:
a) Agro-processing (since cassava, rice, soya beans and groundnut are not only produced in large quantities, but below capacity too);
b) Shea butter production and export given the abundance of shea butter tree species;
c) Animal husbandry, poultry keeping and bee-culture;
d) Tree crops production (grafted mangoes, cashew, moringa and eucalyptus);
e) There are large clay deposits at Krenkuase and Kanto for brick and tile industry;
f) With a number of wood processing firms in the district, investors in the furniture industry could consider establishing furniture manufacturing plants;
g) The standard of education in the district is very low and investors could explore the opportunity of establishing world class international schools (most public workers send their children to schools outside the district);
h) High demand for accommodation facility
i) Water transport
j) Tourist attraction:
They include the footprint of the legendary Akomfo Anokye at Bunji, Kyeamekrom Crocodile Pond, the Digya National Park (the largest National Park in the Ghana) and 38 island communities.
k) It was discovered in the 1970s that there are deposits of oil in and around Premuase, a village about 25km east of Kwame Danso. Oil could be discovered in commercial quantity.

Conclusion:
The Sene District Assembly in pursuit of its mission and vision is committed to creating the enabling environment for the private sector and Civil Society Organisations. We are therefore inviting investors around the globe to take advantage of the mirage of opportunities which abound.

Sene District Assembly
Post Office Box 11
Kwame Danso
Brong- Ahafo region
Ghana, West Africa

senedistrictassembly@yahoo.com