Best farmer lures youth into farming

Ahyiayem (B/A), Jan. 5, GNA - Mr. Kwaku Azubire, Nkoranza South District best

farmer, has urged unemployed youth in the area to engage in farming to improve their living

conditions. Mr. Azubire was sharing his experiences with the youth of Ahyiayem to encourage those

interested to take up farming. He expressed concern about the alarming rate at which the youth of Nkoranza travelled by

land through the Sahara Desert to Libya without taking into consideration the risks involved

in such adventure. Mr. Azubire said he travelled to Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Libya, Niger, Benin, Togo and

Gabon for greener pastures these proved fruitless. He said he returned from Gabon in 2004 and started serious farming and could boast of a

number of viable projects he had established through agriculture. He has acres of yam, maize, cassava, plantain, cowpeas and groundnuts as well as cattle,

sheep, goats and fowls. Mr. Azubire advised traditional authorities and land owners to release land to the youth

determined to go into farming. He expressed concern about the deplorable condition of the road that links Ahyiayem and

Kyirem since foodstuffs got rotten because of lack of means of transport to marketing

centres during the rainy season. Mr. Azubire called on the district assembly to liaise with the Department of Feeder Roads

to rehabilitate the road to facilitate the easy movement of the farmers and their produce.