Mr. Ernest Y Botah, Founder and Executive Director of the Vision Way Organisation, an NGO into Youth Empowerment and focusing in equipping the African Youth to living beyond their present and future challenges while pursuing the intent of their existence on 10th June, 2022, trained and donated to 100 farmers in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District.
The donation includes cutlasses and weedicides to 100 beneficiary farmers.
Mr. Ernest Y Botah, addressing the farmers said gone are the days were farming was seen to be an occupation for the poor.
And that he has seen farming transformed people’s lives from poverty to riches.
He noted that his interest is to see the farmers in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District not struggle to look after their children in schools and be to able to break the back of poverty through agriculture hence his support in investing an amount of GHC5,050.00 into the training and some farm inputs.
The event that took place in Tuna saw the trainers from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District trained the 100 farmers on the best practices of farming.
Focusing on sowing, application of fertiliser or manure, type of seeds to use for more yields, appropriate time of harvesting among others.
On the alternatives to fertilizers usage since the fertilisers are becoming so much expensive the trainers taught and asked farmers to grow their own manure to supplement the little fertiliser they can afford.
Mr Ernest Y Botah encouraged farmers to also go into soybean farming since it has a ready market.
“My interest is to see you farmers become financially independent”,he said.
The NGO last year donated food stuff to 100 widows in the District.
Source: yagbonradioonline
