By Joseph Nana Yaw Cobbina
The Agric 4 Girls is an initiative that helped bridge the gap farming and forest producers in sub-Saharan Africa face many barriers to achieving their full potential and also boost agribusiness in the value chain.
Speaking at the sidelined of official launch of Agric 4 Girls initiatives, the CEO of Maphlix Trust Ghana Limited, Dr.Felix M. Kamassah reiterated that the drive to improve gender equality through young girls to improve agriculture sector.
According to him, he conducted surveys on knowledge gaps and governance models and provides them with agric input to equip them in agribusiness.
Ghana only makes half of the country’s crop producers, but they face multiple disadvantages due to slow pace in youth taken advantage of the agribusiness especially the girls participation.
He observed that these include lack of land ownership and limited access to finance, inputs and markets and a lack of political voice to include our young in agribusiness policy reforms.
Meanwhile the CEO for Agric 4Girls initiative Mrs. Enyonam Manye Adjetey hinted that many Ghanaian women work as unpaid labourers on land owned by men. At a national level, Ghanaian women farmers and have been under-represented and unable to work collectively to improve their circumstances as women.
Today the organisation is going to train and equip 400 girls in agribusiness.
According to her, they will also equip them with a local level, policy advice, strategy development and delivering practical training and toolkits.
She affirmed that the organisation will also ensure that they get access to litigation free land or partner with land owners.
This is backed up by a governance structure that provides mechanisms for women’s concerns to be heard from the grassroots to the national level.
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