65-year-old farmer, John Akolgo has urged the youth of the Upper East region and Ghana as a whole to venture into the agriculture business in order to create jobs for themselves.
The all-year-round farmer who is from Sherigu-Zurebiisi, a suburb of the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East region, describes farming as a lucrative business that can turn around the life of any individual who commits and ventures into it, especially the teeming unemployed youth.
In an exclusive interview with A1Radioonline.com Mr. Akolgo who is a retired Driver, said while he was young, farming wasn’t something he dreamed of going into, but after venturing into it after four years, he wishes he would have started farming earlier.
“I was a driver but I am on retirement, so immediately I went on retirement I asked myself what can I do, so agriculture sector came to mind and I started this my farm. But I can tell you that, since I started this farming for the past four years, I can say farming is a good area that if you go into it, especially the youth, you will succeed. Because the fact is that you can’t lose everything in farming if you are really serious and committed, so I want to advise the youth to start doing something small,” he said.
Mr. John Akolgo who cultivates pepper, onion, cassava, among other varieties of vegetables said due to lack of a dam in the area, he has had to resort to using a mechanized borehole for his dry season farming activities.
He also lamented the insufficiency and high price of fertilizer in the market as one of the factors making farming difficult.
Mr. Akolgo, therefore, called on the government to find ways of making fertilizer available and less expensive in the market for farmers.
Source:A1Radioonline.Com|101.1MHZ|David Azure |Sherigu-Zurebiisi|
