By Christopher Tetteh, GNA
Sunyani, Bono, May 22, GNA -The 2026 Ghana Youth Agriculture Summit, an agri-business conference has opened in Sunyani with a call on the youth to leverage opportunities and engage in agri-businesses to enhance their livelihoods.
The Agricwealth Ghana, a youth focused, impact-driven agriculture organisation is organizing the day’s conference on the theme: “Youth, agribusiness and economic transformation”.
It is being attended by policy makers, youth, entrepreneurs, agribusiness professionals, development partners, educators and other stakeholders in the agri-business value chain.
The Reverend Evans Kyere-Mensah, the Chief Executive Officer of the Agriimpact Ghana Limited and convener of Agricwealth Ghana, who made the call noted the nation’s agriculture sector had huge prospects that could transform the livelihoods of the youth.
Speaking at the opening session of the summit, underway at the Nsiah Gyabaah Auditorium of the Sunyani Technical University, he said the youth ought to be encouraged to drive agriculture production in the country.
He said the summit aimed at awakening the possibilities and changing the mindset of the public about agriculture, drive innovations and help unearth the potential in the agriculture sector for job creation and poverty reduction.
There is therefore the need to bridge the gap between farmers and young agripreneurs to boost investments in the sector.
Rev Kyere-Mensah said that the summit focused on empowering the youth to take advantage of the numerous opportunities in the agriculture sector, engage in agri-businesses and thereby better their socio-economic livelihoods.
“We also seek to provide a strategic platform for engagement and stakeholder networking”, he stated, saying that: “Agricultural is all about national growth, food security, poverty reduction and job creation”.
Rev Kyere-Mensah stated that: “Success doesn’t only exist in white colour jobs”, he stated and advised the unemployed youth to channel their exuberances into agribusinesses, saying that: “There are massive employment and income generation opportunities in the agriculture sector”.
Rev. Kyere-Mensah, earlier told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview that the rising youth unemployment situation in the country now threatened national security.
He expressed worry that about 25 percent of the youth between 15 years and 35 years continued to idle around and called on the government to do more to make the agriculture sector appeal to the youth.
“As a nation we must intensify our efforts to well position the agriculture sector for wealth creation, poverty reduction and business opportunity ventures to attract the younger population”, he stated.
GNA
Edited by Dennis Peprah/Kenneth Odeng Adade
Reporter: Christopher Tetteh
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