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News from Saturday, April 20, 2019
Source: GNA
2019-04-20
Two-thirds of the products would be given to young people so that they can again cultivate or sell
Last year, the Regional Secretariat of the National Youth Authorities of the Upper West harvested 1,022 bags of maize under the Youth for Planting for Food program and the $ 30,000. Employment (PFJ) set up to ensure food security and stimulate job creation.
The National Youth Authority (NYA) supported 120 young people in the region as part of a pilot project led by the PFJ in 2018 to grow 120 acres of maize.
The Ghana Prison Service, which participated in the program during the pilot project in the same year, also collected 120 bags of maize, a feat that encouraged the NYA to repeat the course this year.
Mr. Mumuni Sulemana, director of programs and operations of the National Secretariat of the State of New York, said that two-thirds of the products would be donated to young people so that they could again cultivate or sell to support other income generating activities.
The rest of the production would be donated to the buffer society as part of the Authority's contribution to the country's food security, he added.
He said the NYA had piloted the program to determine its potential for effective youth involvement in agriculture as part of the national PFJ program.
Speaking at a ceremony in Wa to deliver the product to youth, NYA Executive Vice President, Mr. Bright Acheampong, said it was the responsibility of young people to contribute to the project. national development, adding: "We are all involved in building our motherland."
He added that the success of the program was an indication that young men and women were ready to contribute to national development and expressed the hope that they would be able to replicate the result without NYA's support.
"I hope that in this farming season, you will be able to hold on and have the means to support yourself so you can do it your way and have the products," he said.
"As you grow and you can reap the benefits, you can help others as well."
The Deputy Director of Prisons, Mr. Christopher Nyamedi, badured the NYA of the determination of the prison service to partner with the Authority to expand the program to benefit the region and the country.
Archibald Donkoh Junior, Acting Regional Director of the State of New York for the North West, said he would work to minimize the problems that young people faced during the last crop year and to contribute to the improvement of their activities.
"We are all aware of what the pilot projects are supposed to be, after the project, to study them, to know the challenges and what needs to be improved," he said.
"We will take steps to reduce some of the challenges you faced last year."
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