As part of the efforts to motivate the youth who have ventured into agriculture and also get others to join, the Ministry of Agriculture has donated 100,000 farming starter packs to these young people engaged in farming.
The starter packs were donated to the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) for onward distribution to members of the Youth-In-Agriculture program.
Minister for Agriculture and Member of Parliament for Abetifi in the Eastern Region, Bryan Acheampong says each starter pack among other things includes a spraying machine, a Wellington booth, gloves, goggles, and cutlass.
This gesture, the Minister says is part of an agenda to incentivize the youth to take up agriculture as an occupation.
Aside from the farming inputs, Bryan Acheampong revealed that other incentives that the Ministry in collaboration with the YEA are giving to the Youth-In-Agriculture program include financial and machinery support in addition to the facilitation of lands for their farming business.
“Today, we are here to present to them as a ministry to YEA and young people who are interested in going into agriculture 100,000 starter packs. We also want to make a commitment to young people that here at Agric engineering, we have some mechanization equipment made of power tillers, planters, and other agric machinery if they show interest, they can take advantage of,” Bryan Acheampong said while donating the items to the YEA on Tuesday.
The Youth-In-Agriculture program was launched by the YEA in October last year as a government initiative in the agriculture sector with the objective of motivating the youth to accept and appreciate farming as a viable commercial venture thereby taking it up as a lifetime occupation.
The program incentivizes the youth into areas such as crop farming, livestock/poultry, fisheries/aquaculture, and agribusiness among others while the government provides them with the necessary support.
