A 74-year old farmer in the Kintampo North Municipality has emphasized the importance of farming when it comes to ensuring food security.

For over 50 years, Wuniba Ubondo has dedicated himself to tilling the land from which he provides the needs of his family, including what he missed, as a child - education.

He discounts any claim farming is unprofitable in Ghana.

Wuniba remains committed to visiting his farm every day.

"I have achieved a lot from the farm. I have built a house in Kintampo and Mpaso village out of the farm proceeds.

"I also eat fresh food from my farm without buying," he said.

Age, they say, is just a number and for Wuniba’s engagement on the farm, the figure poses no challenge .

Wuniba has been farming since he was young. Though his father denied him formal education, he would not allow that to shatter his hopes. He found pleasant solace in farming.

"Anybody who claims that farming is not profitable does not know what they are talking about."

"In the past, when parents were compelled to send their children to school, my father kept us in the bush from dawn to dusk in order to stop us from going to school," he added.

Wuniba said he would have become a great person if he had gotten any education.

According to him, his children will not suffer the same fate of losing out on schooling; hence his decision to pay for their fees until the tertiary level.

He said, "I have invested in the education of my children from what I gained on the farm."

The eldest among his children has completed training college while two others have completed Senior High School.

"There are four other young ones too that I'm taking care of their education with profit from the farm."

Wuniba harvests about 4 thousand tubers of yam together with other crops, every year.

"There is another farm at Asimakodaa, which is 10 acres of land and 5 acres just by the roadside around the mountainside. I go there when I'm unable to get here early, for family consumption.

"I'm expecting about GH¢20,000.00 when I harvest."

He tells JoyNews, he has never bought food for the family because there is always enough from his farm.

Wuniba’s children help him on the farm only on weekends.

"It is said that one business is never business so as they are in different walks of life, I will support them while I keep mine.

"At least we can always support each other in terms of struggle.

"And now that they are educated, the government should provide them with jobs to do."

He, however, says poor roads and other challenges remain disincentives to his activities.

"Sometimes, it takes us weeks to be able to transport our farm produce to market centres," he added.