Vegetable and fruits sellers around the Tanoboase toll booth in the Techiman North District of the Bono East Region have hailed the nomination of Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare as the Minister-designate for Trade, Agribusiness and Industry.

While expressing their appreciation to President Mahama for the nomination, the traders called on the President to expedite action for the re-opening of the toll booth.

In an interview with the media at Tanoboase, Madam Salomey Kruwaa, the Leader of the Tanoboase Fruits Sellers Association regretted that the economic activities of most of the traders had collapsed due to the closure of the tollbooth.

As the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, she said most of the traders and market women in the district were happy about the nomination of Mrs Ofosu-Agyare, hoping to see improvement in the mango and vegetable sectors.

She said those sectors were highly economically viable, but certain challenges were impeding the growth of the sectors.

Other traders at the Tuobodom central market said that they were also happy about the nomination of their MP, saying they were optimistic that Mrs Ofosu- Agyare would use her new political portfolio to tackle post vegetable and fruits losses in the area.

The constituency is well noted mostly for commercial plantation of tomatoes and fresh mangoes, however due to lack of storage and processing factories, quantities of the tomatoes and mangoes go waste in the crop season every year.

Reacting to the nomination of the MP by President John Dramani Mahama, the traders, mostly women, said they had confidence in the MP, anticipating the setting up of processing and storage facilities to add value to raw tomatoes and mangoes and also prevent wastage too.

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