Ghana: Take advantage backyard farming to own an agribusiness

Rabbit Meat

Frozen Snail

Ghana

Published Dec 23, 2021

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The youth must take advantage of backyard farming to enter into agriculture and create their own agribusiness, Member of Parliament for Klotey Korle Constituency, Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, has said. She said snail rearing, mushroom farming and rabbit keeping did not require huge tract of land to start a business venture from them.

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Dr Zanetor disclosed this during the closing ceremony of the National Agricultural Capacity Building and Business Set-up Roadshow (NAGRICA) which started on Friday and ended last Saturday. She said the youth must discard the perception that agriculture required huge tract of land to engage in. "This is the reason why we started with the snail, rabbit and mushroom train under NAGRICA training to drum home the point that one does not need a large tract of land to engage in agriculture," she said. Tagged "It is Possible," the programme is an initiative of Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, and implemented by Agrihouse Foundation, a non-governmental organisation with focus on agri-business and agriculture. Under the three-day programme, about 150 youth from Greater Accra were trained in snail, rabbit and mushroom cultivation. After the training, each beneficiary was presented with a certificate and a starter-pack to help them start their business in the three areas of training. Dr ...

Source: All Africa