Youths in Ghana have been encouraged to overlook the frustrating words often passed on farming as an occupation but consider becoming farmers.

Ghanaian youths following their orientation on white colour jobs over farming, have been charged for a proper reorientation on choosing a sustainable career path.

Emmanuel Nana Kobina Acquah, Chairman for the Groundnut Growers Association of Ghana (Komenda Zone) made this assertion at the association's 2nd annual anniversary earmarked on the theme, "Championing Agriculture Through Innovation, Investment and Resilience" on Friday.

Speaking at the event, he bemoaned the fact that farming emerges a distastefully spoken against occupation to venture as a Ghanaian youth, since it's perceived to be a job for visionless individuals as it possesses little or no benefit.

Emmanuel Acquah rubbished that perception on farming to be a fallacy and eulogized the untapped benefits on farming the country has failed to recoup over the years following the level of priority Ghana places on farming compared to advanced countries across the world.

Chairperson for the occasion who doubles as Lawyer for the association, Lawyer Nana Adwoa Ackon-Mensah on her address dished out to members that the association's progress starts with them and no one else, since no one can better help the association than themselves as heaven helps those that help themselves.

Margaret Quarm, Officer in charge of Women in Agriculture at the Department of Agric in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality in an interview with Sompa TV's Eric Annan appealed on leadership of schools in the country to discard the act of punishing students with weeding.

This act, according to the Agric Expert has significantly contributed in killing the desire among Ghanaian youths to enter into farming, having grown with the notion that farming bares no dividend and a means of punishment.

The colorful ceremony, meanwhile, saw the retirement of ten (10) farmers who going forward will be placed on a monthly stipend by the association and with the encouragement that their advise on the operation of the association will be fervently welcomed.

The farmers on their retirement from farming were made to take home a bag of rice, oil, mackerel and a farming certificate.

Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan