UG Agric Students Career and Mentorship Dialogue business club launched

Agrihouse Foundation in partnership with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture has launched the University of Ghana Agric Students Career and Mentorship Dialogue (UG-AG-STUD) in University of Ghana Legon.

This is to develop the student's abilities and leadership skills, create opportunities in the corporate world of Agribusiness in their communities.

The Agric Students Career and Mentorship Dialogue is an Agribusiness capacity building boot camp whose 1st edition took of on February 2018.

It is a practical beginner Agribusiness initiative by Agrihouse Foundation which aims to help develop Agric Students’ Agribusinesses and start-up enterprise, exposing them to the dynamics of the market, through education and leadership programs which is necessary to the success and growth of Agriculture.

Delivering the keynote address of the launch, the assistance registrar of the faculty of Agriculture at the University of Ghana, Legon, Mr. Kofi Yeboah thank Agrihouse Foundation for such a wonderful initiative which would bring out the change in the economy by the students exhibiting the practical knowledge imbibe in them as they have learnt in class.

He advised the students to put up total commitment to the programme to help reduce import of food commodities, unemployment and increasing exports. ”I would beseech the student’s intervention of this programme to reduce unemployment, importation of Food Crops and increase export. This would also enhance the face of the University and improve the Agric sector in the country’’.

He assured the security of the land allocated to the students. He clearly stated that the authorities have bestowed one hectare of school land to the students for the project, therefore, the farm manager would ensure maximum protection of the land from any encroachment.

The Executive Director of Agrihouse Foundation, Albert Akosa shared that the programme started in 2018 with the effort to support investing in the youth and the students practically in order to have work to do before they graduate.

Speaking to Agric Today Media, the Executive Director said that the programme would groom the students and bring out the managerial skills and structure them with a business mindset rather than just being Agric Students.

She thanked the school for their immense contribution to see prospects in the programme and issuing a piece of land for the project. She assured Agrihouse Foundation’s support to the students and the beginners in the agric sector. The AG-STUD Business Club thus: Farmers’ Club is made up of four coordinators and fifteen members.

According to Obed Asamoah, the General Coordinator, of the club, the project has come to add the practical value to their studies and would change the narrative that every graduate must hunt for job after school.

He mentioned that every student studying Agriculture is already employed and all that the person has to do is to practicalise what he or she has been thought at school.

He assured his full commitment to lead the club and bring out the maximum best to achieve the objectives of which the idea was established.

The club is made up of four coordinators and fifteen members, they are;

1. Obed Asamoah Manu – General Coordinator

2. Bright Emmanuel Abiah – Financial and Marketing Coordinator

3. Stephen Amponsah Adinkra – Technical Coordinator

4. Sarah Solomon – General Secretary

Club Members

1. Francis Badoo

2. Ellen Frimpong

3. Marcus Arthur

4. Enyonam Laurencia

5. Armah Isaac

6. Stephen Amponsah Adinkra

7. Agbenyefia Sedufia Yao

8. Kporfeame Francis

9. Nancy Tetteh Korkor

10. Sarah Solomon

11. Sevor Edzitor

12. Essong Ebenezer

13. Jonathan Kwarteng

14. Princella Abakah

15. Cyril Azime