Mr Eric Opoku, the Minister of Food and Agriculture has assured the ministry’s commitment to modernise agriculture, thereby making farming more attractive to the youthful population.
He said that, would not only help tackle the teeming youth unemployment situation in the country now but would also position the nation well to reduce the importation of food and further guarantee national food security.
Mr Opoku emphasised that farming remained a lucrative enterprise, saying the government through the ministry would soon roll out interventions that would make the sector more attractive for the youth to engage in commercial farming.
Mr Opoku also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Asunafo South Constituency in the Ahafo Region, gave the assurance at a thanksgiving service held at Sankore in the Asunafo South District of the region.
“The government through the MoFA will soon implement interventions and policies to boost agriculture and farming,” the sector minister stated.
Touching on the recurring political violence at Sankore, a major election flashpoint in the region, Mr Opoku warned the youth to refrain from acts of violence, warning that trouble makers in the area would not be spared.
“So, anybody or group planning to create chaos and confusion must think twice because the security is also ready to deal with them”, he stated, and urged the youth to concentrate on building their lives and future.
The sector minister said, “in fact the law will not spare anybody who will try to disturb the peace of the district,” stressed the government readiness to implement sound socio-economic intervention programmes that would alleviate the plight of the people, and the youth in particular
