'We need planting for food and jobs' - Amezdofe elders cry out

The Elders of Amezdofe have called on the government to introduce its policy of Planting for Food and Jobs to the youth in the community to help reduce youth unemployment in the community. The Elders cried out when a team of Agric today reporters visited the community.

According to the elders when the youth complete Junior and Senior High School they are left with nothing meaningful to do. This, they bemoaned, has promoted social vices in the community. They are therefore appealing to the government to extend its policy of Planting for Food and Jobs to Amezdofe in order to engage the youth in meaningful and productive activities to promote their community.

“When the youth complete school being JHS or SHS, they do not do any proper work rather than loitering around. They engage in immoral activities and this is disturbing us the Elders. There is a vast of land to allocate to the youth for farming. We would like to inform the government to channel its policy to this community to help put the youth and the land into meaningful use”. Mr. William Kofi, one of the Elders said.

According to the youth in the community, they do not have any work to do after school and that the little farming they do barely fetches them a hundred Ghana Cedis a month. They believe the government has turned a blind eye on them and thus call on it to come to their aid.