Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture, John Dumelo, has assured senior high schools (SHSs) in the Ahafo Region of government’s support to strengthen their farming activities under the Feed Ghana initiative.
Mr. Dumelo, who toured institutions including Ahafoman Senior High Technical School, Mim SHS, and Acherensua SHS, praised management for cultivating crops such as maize, cassava, and plantain to support the school feeding programme.
He encouraged other schools yet to start farming to follow suit, promising that government would reward such efforts.
His pledge follows an appeal by the headmaster of Ahafoman Senior High Technical School, Derrick Adu Gyamfi, who called on the Ministry to provide schools with the needed equipment to scale up their agricultural projects.
According to Mr. Gyamfi, although many schools in the region have vast lands, they are unable to farm on a large scale due to lack of resources.
He said beyond crop production, schools are ready to expand into poultry farming, but this requires the Ministry’s intervention for the effective rollout of the “Institutional Farming” programme under Feed Ghana.
Source: Sammy Asare
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