The Kosmos Innovative Centre project of the AkentenAppiah-Menka College of Expertise Coaching and Entrepreneurial Improvement (AAMUSTED) has educated 220 younger farmers on local weather good agriculture.
It additionally supplied the younger farmers between 18 and 35 years with important farm inputs including fertilisers, pesticides, weedicides, fungicides, and seeds geared toward enhancing productiveness.
The implementation of the challenge adopted a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the KIC and the University for collaborative relationships on numerous areas of agricultural, agribusiness, capacity-building curiosity, and mutual profit.
Signed in 2024, the challenge geared toward supporting younger ‘agripreneurs’ and start-up organisations within the agribusiness worth chain and different enterprise associated areas.
Talking on the closing session of the coaching, held on the College’s predominant campus at Mampong within the Ashanti Area, Dr Benjamin AboagyeDanso, the School Advisor of the KIC/ AAMUSTED challenge, indicated that the challenge was anticipated to create an enabling atmosphere for sustainable farming among the many youth between 18 and 35 years to advertise meals safety and guarantee poverty discount.
“As a part of its ongoing efforts to equip younger farmers with data and assets wanted for sustainable agriculture, the challenge implementation workforce of the KIC/AAMUSTED Venture, below the Younger Farmer Business Academy Initiative (YFBA) educated the farmers,” he defined.
Dr Danso reiterated that the challenge would enhance technical and agronomic capacities of farmer teams, particularly girls and youth teams for sustainable meals manufacturing by way of the enter help strategy, excessivelighting its necessity to curb the challenges younger farmers face by way of preliminary funding capital at the start of the farming season.
Mr Ebenezer Abankwah, the challenge officer of KIC, pressured that the initiative would enhance the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, particularly younger girls, and youth by growing productivity, market entry and creation of recent jobs.
The challenge additionally seeks to enhance earnings alternatives and improve the resilience of the farmers on worth chain actions, thereby contributing to meals safety, poverty discount and financial progress.
In an outline, Dr BenardEffah, the Technical Lead for the YFBA initiative, elaborated that the implementation of the challenge was necessitated by the nation’s overreliance on meals imports to satisfy home demand, regardless of the huge arable land and favourin a position weather conditions to professionalduce these meals objects.
That scenario, he added, had contributed to a excessive import burden and worsening trade fee, resulting in a excessive value of dwelling, emphasising that by “this initiative, the following era of agripreneurs will probably be well-equipped for achievement, fostering a extra resilient and productive agricultural sector.”
Professor Dr Isaac Abunyuwah, who represented the college administration, excessivelighted the significance of such programmes in enhancing the agricultural sector and improving the livelihoods of younger farmers.
“The occasion marks one other important milestone within the university’s efforts to help and promote sustainable agriculture among the many youth,” he acknowledged. Mr Emmanuel Baah, the Mampong Municipal Deputy Director Agriculture additionally supplied invaluable perception on sustainable farming strategies that have been essential in adapting to local weather change and bettering agricultural productivity.
The coaching additionally allowed individuals to share their insights on sustainable farming practices in addition to their concerns concerning the modalities of the challenge. —GNA
