Thursday 31 May 2012

Agriculture Is Solution To Unemployem


The Global Centre For  Transformational Leadership (GCFTL), an international organization  has  confirmed  an Honorary Doctorate  on the  Managing Director of the Benntronic  Company, a  leading   Kumasi   based   dealers in agro   chemicals  and    other farming inputs, Mr. Benard Kwasi Dwomo   for his  contribution  towards the development of  agriculture in the  country.
 In a citation the Vice President of the GCFTL, Rev.  Dr. Mrs. Comfort  Drusilla  Adu,  indicated  that , Mr. Dwomo  among  a few Ghanaians have played  a  lead  role to propel  the agricultural sector which is the main pivot on which  the national economy revolves.
She  noted that   part  from his  contribution to  sustain agriculture,  he has  equally dotted  branches of his company  in many parts  of the country by which  large number  of the  youth  are  making  their  living.
Speaking to this paper in  a post award interview, Mr. Dwomo  explained that  the new title confirmed on him  would  spur him up  to  do a lot more ,“ I’m very  elated by the   honour  done me  by  this great institution, the award would definitely be a motivational factor  for me  to  go  step  further,” he  remarked.
According to him,  if the vast number of  the graduate jobless persons  could  have ventured into  agriculture, the  situation of the  high rate  of unemployment among them  could  be  reduced if not  eradicated completely.
“The efforts  to eliminate  the  problem of unemployment  among  our university graduates  could be  a thing  of the  past if  they  go into  farming,’’ he said.
He  averred that  country  could boost her agricultural  sector  if such graduates  could  erase   the  notion that  portrays  farming  as the solely  reserved   job  for   the uneducated  and   rather  venture into it.
“The country stands to benefit significantly from the agric sector if those graduates would go into Agriculture,” he added.
He believed  that  the involvement of  graduates  in  farming  would be a good omen for the country  to enhance the process of  modernizing agriculture  in the sense  that  if  vast   percent  of them  were into  agriculture  it would witness  a tremendous  transformation as  technology  and modern  innovations would be  injected into the sector   to make  very attractive.
“I wonder why the country is  endowed  with  vast arable  land  yet  most   graduates  are refusing to  go into the land ,  the over dependency  on the  government to create  white  collar  for them has compounded the situation of  unemployment  among them in recent  times,” he observed.
Mr. Dwomo called   his  client farmers  to always  read and  carefully follow  the  instructions on  the chemicals  they  use  on  their crops  , “as  dealers in agro chemicals  , my humble  advice  to our cherished  farmers out  there is , they should always read and carefully follow the instructions on the chemicals  in  order to avoid over  usage which in  turn could  destroy their crops,” he advised.

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