{"id":1119664,"date":"2022-06-12T22:29:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T22:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/12\/stakeholders-engage-on-pathways-for-sustainable-employment-in-agriculture\/"},"modified":"2022-06-12T22:29:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T22:29:50","slug":"stakeholders-engage-on-pathways-for-sustainable-employment-in-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/12\/stakeholders-engage-on-pathways-for-sustainable-employment-in-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Stakeholders engage on Pathways for Sustainable Employment in agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Koforidua (E\/R) Jun 12, GNA \u2013 Stakeholders from key organisations have been engaged in implementing the Pathways for Sustainable Employment (PaSE) programme in the agriculture sector, in Koforidua.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The stakeholder&#8217;s engagement was organized by TECHFARM Hub, an entrepreneurship, innovation, and business development organization in collaboration with the Communications Ministry and the Mastercard foundation&#8217;s Young People Work programme on the theme, \u201cThe role of AgriTech in transforming the local economy for job creation\u201d.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Kobina Adomadzi Londgon, Chief Executive Officer, TECHFARM Hub, explained that the PaSE programme was a comprehensive strategy aimed at engaging, training, and supporting young entrepreneurs in agriculture with startups and incubation as well as internships to boost their operations for investments and funding opportunities.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Caleb Lomo, Project Lead for GreenHeart SE, who outlined the technologies under the project said they included climate resilient agriculture practices for increased productivity.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He noted that currently farmers had minimised or eliminated the application of fertilizer and pesticides in favour of pure organic farming, describing it as a step in the right direction.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mrs Marian Mansa Minnah, Eastern Regional Director of the National Youth Authority (NYA), urged the youth to venture into agriculture especially acqua-cultue and poultry, adding, \u201cFarming is now improved and has lessened labour cost and time, yet, increased productivity,&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koforidua (E\/R) Jun 12, GNA \u2013 Stakeholders from key organisations have been engaged in implementing the Pathways for Sustainable Employment (PaSE) programme in the agriculture sector, in Koforidua. The stakeholder&#8217;s engagement was organized by TECHFARM Hub, an entrepreneurship, innovation, and business development organization in collaboration with the Communications Ministry and the Mastercard foundation&#8217;s Young People [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3025,4129,2095,17327,460,1830],"class_list":["post-1119664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business","tag-agriculture","tag-employment","tag-engage","tag-pathways","tag-stakeholders","tag-sustainable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}