The Younger Agripreneur Discussion board on College of Cape-Coast campus has held an orientation and onboarding for its new members on the Design Considering and Innovation Hub (D-Hub) of the college.
YAF is a student-led interenergetic discussion board the place tertiary college students can share and change concepts, pursuits and have interaction in activities pertaining to agriculture.
YAF offers capability constructing and sensible expertise coaching for college kids, spend money on altering the mindset and perceptions of younger individuals and place agripreneurship as an thrilling profession of selection.
An initiative of Kosmos Innovation Centre (KIC), YAF is devoted to empowering younger agricultural entrepreneurs.
Additionally current on the orientation had been new and current members of YAF patrons, particularly Dr Alexander Nuer, Dr Keren Arthur and the Programme Officer (PO), Irene Naa Korkoi Armah, who supplied beneficial perspectives on agribusiness and youth alternatives in Ghana.
Additionally they inspired members to actively interact within the agribusiness sector, emphasising its potential to drive job creation and financial development.
A press release issued in Accra yesterday by the organisers acknowledged that the occasion additionally served as a chance to introduce newly
elected government council and supply insights into entrepreneurial prospects within the agricultural worth chain.
It mentioned the executives shared their imaginative and prescient and dedication to fostering agribusiness development amongst younger individuals.
New members got the platform to debate challenges
they understand within the agricultural sector.
Via these discussions, members explored progressive methods to show these challenges into entrepreneurial ventures.
“Key areas recognized included post-harvest losses, insufficient market entry, and worth addition in agribusiness.” the assertion revealed.
A devoted session was held to stipulate the Discussion board’s work plan for the semester and the whole 12 months.
Members deliberated on numerous anchor tasks to be undertaken, making certain that the initiatives align with the YAF aims of selling youth involvement in agribusiness.
The orientation concluded with a session on sustainability planning. Members mentioned methods to make sure the long-term success and affect of YAF-UCC, specializing in useful resource mobilisation, partnerships, and capacity-building programmes.
Kosmos Innovation Centre, in partnership with the Graspcard Basis, is dedicated to empowering younger individuals by way of employment opportunities by way of entrepreneurship.
The Younger Agripreneur Discussion board (YAF) is without doubt one of the professionalgrammes KIC is implementing underneath its partnership with the Mastercard Basis on the Initiative for Youth in Agricultural Transformation (IYAT) Programme.
