Young people are urged to choose farming over migrating to cities
Mr. Godfred Kulibuo, a 29-year-old Senior High School graduate who lives in Dariteng under the Baleufiili electoral area in the Wa West District of the Upper West Region, has warned young people to stop moving to the south of Ghana in quest of unattainable jobs.
On Wednesday, December 7, 2022, Mr. Godfred Kulibuo told Home Radio News in Dariteng that when his father passed away in 2014, he began farming soon after graduating from Lassia Tuolo Senior High school.
He stated that without his father, there was no one to provide for the family’s needs, including his siblings’ education.
He continued by saying that being the first son of the parents, he had subsequently begun farming to support his mother, siblings, and other family members.
“I never regretted going into farming despite dropping out of school because farming is a a lucrative business,” he stated.
The crops he cultivates are maize, millet, soybeans, groundnuts, beans, cassava, and yam.
He mentioned that, “I have benefited a lot from farming because I have been able to build a house, buy grinding mill, tricycle, pay my siblings school fees and also help to feed the needy including orphans in the community,” he added.
He bemoaned the fact that young people from the northern part of Ghana, in particular Wa West, migrate to the south in search of employment, notably in the cocoa plantation regions.
Despite the challenges facing the farming industry, he urged young people in the Upper West Region, especially those in the Wa West District, to stop migrating and take up farming as a full-time occupation.
By Romanus Bombe
