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FAGRO to partner Yara Ghana to organize a summit for women and the youth in agriculture

Food and agriculture show (FAGRO) in partnership with Yara Ghana a leading fertilizer company in Ghana is to organize a summit for women and the youth in agriculture.

According to the head of marketing for Yara Ghana, Mr. Kwame Okyere, the purpose of the summit is to create a platform for leaders and people who are into agriculture to deliberate on issues which will enhance the activities of agriculture in Ghana.

He mentioned that, it is also their priority to help women in small scale farming to improve on their farming activities because in the smaller villages, women are the ones doing farming and they are unable to produce more due to low capital and lack of access to farm inputs for quality farming.

He noted that, Yara Ghana cannot visit all villages in the country to get farmers for the summit but they are gathering representatives from every farming associations across the country and with farmers not joining any association, they are putting strategies in place reach them all.

Mr. Okyere revealed that, the programme will be held in Accra with dignitaries coming from other countries. Yara Ghana will to put in certain measures to follow up on the impact of the issues that will be discussed at the summit. He reiterated

He added that, a training seminar will be organized for cocoa farmers in the Western Region on how to produce more cocoa without any stress and also to assist them in booming the cocoa business to enable the farmers to carter for their families whiles meeting the increasing demand of the cocoa on the world market.

Source: ritefmonline.org

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