The Chief Executive Officer of POFAMG Enterprise and Training Centre, Obeng Frimpong, has re-echoed the need for the youth, especially the physically challenged, to venture into any form of farming to make a living while helping to improve the country's economy.
He said if the youth take up farming, it will contribute to high food production for the local market and export, bringing in more foreign exchange earnings to support development projects.
He added, ‘‘I call on the youth, particularly those from the Bono Region, to venture into agriculture as a profession rather than to travel to Lybia."
Mr Frimpong, who gave the advice in an interview with JoyNews, encouraged the youth to see farming as a business capable of alleviating poverty while promoting food security.
POFAMG Enterprise and Training Centre are into production of mushroom, tree crop seedling production and general agriculture at Akrobi old town near Wenchi in the Bono region.
They are also engaged in training of students and other interested youth groups to start commercial organic farming.
Mr Frimpong explained that more food and animal products would be produced locally, reducing the country's overreliance on other countries for animal and poultry products and other food items if more youth begin to farm.
He urged young farmers to adopt organic farming practices to save the soil for sustainable agriculture and to improve the health of consumers.
‘‘Chemical fertilisers are very harmful to the environment and the health of consumers, so you, the young people, are acquired to promote sustainable agriculture,’’ he stated.
Mr Frimpong said his company has started growing organic crops on a demonstration farm for domestic consumption.
He appealed to the government to institute policies to make agriculture attractive to the teeming unemployed youth.
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