Editorial
Make agric sector attractive for youth
Dear Sir,
I wish to use this platform to congratulate all farmers in Ghana for their hard work and dedication to duty on the occasion of 2025 Farmers’ Day celebration.
Yesterday, in Ho in the Volta Region, Ghana marked the 41st edition of the celebration instituted by late former president, Jerry John Rawlings. It was marked under an excellent theme “Eat Ghana, Grow Ghana, Secure the future.” The aim was to promote local consumption, food security and the transformation of agriculture into a key driver of the economy.
The message it seeks to send out there is very loud and clear. That, every Ghanaian should strive to consume food produced locally. The work of our gallant farmers would amount to nothing if Ghanaians fail to consume what they toil morning, day and night to produce.
Farmers in Ghana are one group of people we must continue to celebrate and adore. They work so hard to ensure that food reaches every home in Ghana. And on such occasions, it is important to honour them like its done every year but one thing I wish to bring to the attention of government is that it is important to mechanically support the activities of these farmers and secondly, make the agric sector very attractive for the youth.
The youth have become so fixated on white-collar jobs which are currently non-existing. Government must therefore make the sector attractive enough for the youth to veer into the area.
Maxwell Quarshie,
Swedru
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Dear Editor,
AS schools reopen after the holiday, pressure will start to mount on both parents, guardians and teachers.
As a parent, I wish to use this platform to appeal to the basic school authorities through the Ghana Education Service (GES) to reduce the prices of food served our children.
It is very clear and obvious to all that prices of foodstuff have reduced drastically and that was the reason people felt the last Christmas was the best in recent years.
From tomatoes, onions and other vegetables needed to make good meals for the children have seen a reduction in prices.
It will therefore be unfortunate if the school authorities are not humane enough to reduce the school feeding charges. That would amount to wickedness.
This is something the authorities must see to. It will no doubt ease the huge burden on the parents.
Parents were reasonable enough with two different increments when prices shot up. Now that prices seem to have dropped, the schools should do the needful.
That would create some goodwill between the teachers and the parents.
Rose Aboagyewaa, Kasoa
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Dear Editor,
I write to wish you and your staff a Happy New Year and commend you for the good work you have done over the years.
It is my prayer that the good Lord bless you and make available the resources you need to do a better work in the New Year.
I wish to bring your attention to the return of traders to the pavements at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle area.
In the previous decongestion exercise before the holidays, I noticed the authorities intentionally allowed them some freedom to sell at certain areas with lines drawn to demarcate an area for them to do their business.
A visit to the area in the first week of the year revealed that these traders have gone beyond those demarcations and are selling on the spaces left for pedestrians.
The pedestrians are therefore left with narrow pathways to navigate, creating unnecessary congestion in the area and making it difficult for people to move around freely.
I wish to use this platform to inform the authorities about the development. They should send their officers to the market areas to check this for themselves and make sure they move back to the areas designated for them.
Mike Niiaste, Kaneshie
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