NEW AGRIC EXTENSION AGENTS PASS OUT

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A Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, George Oduro says middle level agricultural training holds the key to enhanced agricultural productivity in the country. 

 He said government recognizes agricultural extension as an integral part of its policies for the sector but was worried that for many years, there has been a shortfall in the number of such middle level manpower thereby widening the Extension Agent-farmer ratio. 

Mr. Oduro made the statement in Kumasi at the 7th congregation of the three Colleges of Agriculture under the mentorship of the University of Cape Coast.

 These are the Kwadaso, Ohawu and Pong-Tamale Colleges of Agriculture that offer Diploma in General Agriculture and Animal Health and Production.

 It was on the theme: “Effective Middle Level Agricultural Training, the Key to the Transformation and Modernization of the Country’s Agriculture”.  

 A total of 248 students graduated with 28 of them attaining First Class Honuors.  The Deputy Minister of Food and Agric said government is committed to meeting international requirement of One Extension Agent to 500 farmers which currently stands at one Extension Agent to three thousand.  

 Mr. Oduro said, it is in pursuant of this objective that government has recruited one thousand 200 Agricultural Extension Agents to assist the over 200 thousand farmers participating in the “Planting for Food and Jobs” campaign. 

 
The Principal of the Kwadaso College of Agriculture, Ebenezer Tawiah, reiterated
his earlier appeal to the government and other stakeholder to help improve and expand the College’s to enable it to train more competent middle level personnel for the agric sector. 

Mr. Tawiah noted that slow infrastructural development of the agric institutions is contributing to low student intake and congestion. He appealed to the government to as a matter urgency to rehabilitate one of the dormitories of the Kwadaso Agric College that were abandoned in 2012. 

The Provost of the College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences of University of Cape Coast, Professor Sam Amoah, encouraged the graduates to put their knowledge and skills to work so as to propel growth in the agric sector and also contribute to the progress of their alma matter in whichever way possible.

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