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Government will make farming attractive to the youth – Tain DCE assures

Tain District Chief Executive, Madam Charity Akua Foriwaa Dwommoh has reiterated government’s commitment to providing incentives to individuals or groups interested in commercial farming to improve yield.

Date Created : 2/22/2019 1:19:10 AM : Story Author : Isaac Yeboah/Ghanadistricts.com

She said agriculture as a scientific business would require professionals who will use scientific methods and modern policies to ensure high productivity. She said government would provide the youth with necessary logistical and technical support to excel in the agricultural sector in order to ensure food security in the country.

The DCE gave the assurance during her visit to the farm of two young graduates at Badu Tainso, a farming community in the district to assure them of her support and to also wish them well in their new business as part of her initiative to make agriculture attractive to the youth in the district.

She admonished them to be role models to the unemployed graduates seeking for white-color jobs to also venture into agriculture. She said agriculture, given its major role in the economy, had the potential to provide solutions to the current problems of youth unemployment and it can also provide the youth a viable way to harvest success and grow a sustainable future.

Madam Charity said agriculture should not be left to the aged and the uneducated but needed the energetic youth and professionals to venture into it with improved technology to ensure high productivity.

She mention planting for food and jobs (PFJ), Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD) and District Chamber of Agriculture Commerce and Technology (DCACT) as measures put in place by government to encourage youth into agriculture which they should take advantage of it.

Mr. Asare Nelson, one of the farmers said when weighing career choices, many young people tend to shy away from agriculture due to conventional beliefs that agriculture means an archaic lifestyle and a future with limited opportunities for the youth but he has come to realize that agriculture is more effective than the other sectors in reducing poverty since it provides the youth with viable way to harvest success and a sustainable future.

According him, agriculture is lucrative as any other business and urged the youth to venture into farming and not keep searching for non-existing white color jobs and see farming as the roadmap to development.