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Nkoranza North Best farmer urges youth to take to farming

Dromankese (B/A), Dec. 23, GNA - Mr Charles Oteng, a 42 year-old outstanding farmer at Dromankese in Nkoranza North District, has urged unemployed youth to engage in agriculture to improve their lives. He stressed that farming 93is a business that has high dividends" a= nd urged farmers to regard it as such as they could do greater things out of the vocation. Mr Oteng, adjudged 2009 best farmer in the district, was sharing his experiences with some youth in the community. He expressed concern about how a number of the youth from Nkoranza trekked across the Sahara desert to Libya and other foreign countries to seek greener pastures and denounced the risky nature of the venture. Mr Oteng, who said he had undertaken the trip before, appealed to the unemployed youth in Nkoranza to stay at home and go into farming and they would succeed in life.

He cited how he had managed to establish a poultry farm at Techiman, a= s well as oil palm and cashew plantations, which he said, were helping him greatly in life. The 2009 district best farmer said he also rears sheep and goats and produces maize and yam in large quantities. A number of maize farmers in the district have run into huge debts as a result of the invasion of worms on their farms, he said, and called on the Nkoranza North District Assembly to arrange credit facilities for the youth to engage in agriculture.