The Country Director of AGRA Ghana, Dr Betty Annan, says investments in agriculture are very important to increasing potential markets for the rustic’s adolescence.

She emphasized that agriculture stays one of the crucial tough cars for task introduction, pointing to global research appearing that each greenback invested in sustainable agriculture generates as much as 16 greenbacks in revenue.

She mentioned this on the release of the Youth Tracker and AgTractive Campaign in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth Development and Empowerment (MYDE) in Accra on Tuesday.

Dr. Annan famous that agricultural-led expansion is as much as 3 times simpler in lowering poverty than expansion in different sectors, and reaffirmed AGRA’s dedication to opening doorways for younger other people.

“Agriculture today is not subsistence; it is innovation, it is business, it is technology. Investing in agriculture yields some of the highest returns, and young people have the unique opportunity to lead the future,” she famous.

“The program (AgTractive Campaign) seeks to supply potential markets within the agriculture and agribusiness house for adolescence innovating and pursuing entrepreneurial endeavours within the branding.

Hence, we’re in particular concentrated on adolescence, particularly younger girls between the ages of 18 and 35 years, who’re proactive and dedicated to reworking the branding and growing jobs for themselves and plenty of different adolescence,” Dr Annan defined.

“AGRA remains committed to ensuring that young women, rural youth, and the most disadvantaged are not left behind. We are proud to support the Ministry in turning this vision into meaningful change and in building the partnerships required to unlock the full potential of Ghana’s youth,” she confident.

The Youth Tracker is a virtual platform designed to supply younger other people with direct get admission to to potential markets and provides executive correct knowledge for coverage choices.

The Youth Tracker will function a central hub the place younger other people can in finding jobs, internships, coaching programmes, and agribusiness potential markets.

It may even generate real-time knowledge on adolescence demographics, training, abilities, and staff participation, permitting policymakers to spot tendencies, cope with gaps, and design interventions that replicate the realities and aspirations of Ghana’s adolescence.

The platform has been designed to be inclusive and available to all younger other people, without reference to their location, and can support management throughout adolescence companies via progressed reporting, concentrated on, and transparency.

The AgTractive Campaign is a national motion that seeks to encourage younger other people to embody trendy agriculture as a revered, winning, and future-building profession pathway.

It is constructed at the trust that agriculture is not a subsistence task however a branding outlined via IT, software solutions, returns, and financial alternative.

The marketing campaign will spotlight adolescence innovators and agripreneurs, advertise trendy gear and agritech answers, and inspire younger girls, rural adolescence, and deprived teams to peer agriculture as a dignified and viable supply of branding.

It may even attach younger individuals who need to commerce into agriculture to reinforce potential markets.

Dr Annan famous, “This partnership marks an important milestone for youth empowerment in Ghana and aligns strongly with the Youth Entrepreneurship for the Future of Food and Agriculture (YEFFA) vision of creating dignified and fulfilling work for young people across Africa.”

“The Youth Tracker provides the data and transparency we need to connect young people to real opportunities, while the AgTractive Campaign will inspire them to see what is possible in a modern, innovative, and profitable agrifood system,” she added.

Minister for Youth Development and Empowerment, George Opare-Addo, mentioned: “Ghana’s adolescence deserve transparent pathways to alternative, and those two tasks will assist us ship precisely that.

“The Youth Tracker offers us, for the primary time, a competent and unified machine to know the place potential markets exist and the way younger individuals are having access to them.”

“The AgTractive Campaign will build on this by inspiring our young people to see agriculture as a future-building industry. Together, they represent a bold step toward a more inclusive, data-driven, and opportunity-rich future,” he added.

AGRA supplied technical and strategic reinforce to MYDE within the investment and deployment of a centralised virtual Youth Tracker platform and AI-enabled cell app designed to unify Ghana’s adolescence knowledge ecosystem and amplify get admission to to potential markets for hundreds of thousands of younger other people.

As a part of AGRA’s institutional strengthening time table, AGRA supported MYDE to behavior national sensitisation and coaching periods for workforce around the adolescence companies on using the platform. AGRA could also be main the rollout of the AgTractive Campaign.

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