Agrihouse launches 3rd edition of AG-STUD career guidance and mentorship dialogue

The 3rd edition of the Agricultural students' career guidance and mentorship dialogue has been scheduled for March 10, 2020 through to March 13, 2020.

This bootcamp aims at inspiring agricultural students and startups in the value chain as well as expose them to the dynamics of the market through leadership programmes on agribusinesses.

Speaking on the theme 'Growing the Future, Establishing the Agric youth', in Accra on Thursday, January 24, 2020, Executive Director of Agrihouse Foundation, Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa, noted that the training and mentorship sessions underway is to provide students with the needed set of skills to establish their own businesses.

She furthered that these students will also be equipped with the technical know-how on how to manage their agribusinesses.

This year, a total of 10 schools, namely; University of Ghana, University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kwadaso Agricultural College, University of Developmental Studies (UDS), University of Cape Coast (UCC), Fair River Farm Institute, Damango Agricultural College, Asuansi Farm institute and Northern Agri-Youth Hub would participate in the career guidance and mentorship dialogue.

Representatives from these schools with existing businesses will be groomed, coached and mentored to scale up their trade.

In an interview with the media, she said, “what we basically do is to camp them and basically groom them to be the future agric leaders that we need. We know the schools are doing much but we are complementing their efforts to get the students think practical, have a change of mindset when it comes to agri-business and have a corporate experience of the whole cycle of the value chain and what agriculture stands for”.

Meanwhile, the government of Serbia has partnered with Agrihouse to award these students in the afore-mentioned schools with a scholarship to study agriculture-related disciplines in Serbia as part of their package.

Speaking with GhanaWeb’s Ernestina Serwaa Asante, the Vice-Consul of the Serbian consulate, C.K Annan, stressed that "the idea is to have them see other forms of technology in Serbia so that they will come back with the knowledge, put it at work on their own farms and also be able to transfer it to other farmers.”

He pledged, "we'll try and find suitable places for them to go on a short term attachment, three months, six months, nine months depending on the crop they are growing.”

AG Stud is an agric-booster and capacity building bootcamp programme entirely designed to empower the youth to provide sustainable employment.