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NewageAgric Solutions set to create jobs for youth, women
The NewageAgric Solutions Limited has rolled out an initiative to create 145,000 jobs for youth, women and persons with disability over the next four years.
To this end, the company has started a consultative meeting with rice farmers and stakeholders in Tono in the Upper East Region to introduce them to Harnessing Agricultural Productivity and Prosperity Youth (HAPPY)programme to encourage more youth and women into agriculture.
A statement issued by the company in Accra said NewageAgric Solutions Limited was doing this through HAPPY a co-created consortium-managed project.
According to the statement, New Age Agric Solutions Limited is set to achieve this target through the provision of 18,000ha of irrigated and rain-fed land for use by youth, especially women over the next four years.
“These youth would continue to have access to the lands for farming and be integrated into the network of farmers connected to NewageAgric Solutions Limited,” the statement said.
It said the primary goal of the programme was to catalyse transformative investments in the rice, soybean, tomato, and poultry value chains, to boost production volumes, curb imports, and strategically create employment opportunities for the youth
“NewageAgric Solutions Limited would also support 120 youths to establish 120 hectares of rice seed farms to supply rice seeds to farmers under the programme and reach other farmers outside the HAPPY programme.”
The statement said the company’s role in the project would result in increased production in smallholder young farmers and lead to the production and mobilisation of at least 141,790 metric tonnes of paddy valued at over $44.3 million and 55,000 metric tonnes of soybean valued at over $34.38 million annually.
The entire consortium-led programme, however, intends to achieve a 20 per cent production increase across the four value chains by the end of the implementation phase.
It said “The investment would entail the expansion of cultivated land by 40,000 hectares and enhancements in yields within the existing 15,000 hectares, with an anticipated outcome of an impressive yield of over 189,000 tons of food and 10,000 tons of poultry, resulting in an annual total revenue of $164 million post-2026.”
The HAPPY programme is projected to generate, sustain, and enhance approximately 320,000 dignified jobs.
The initiative is also expected to curtail the national import expenditure, resulting in savings exceeding $164 million over the four years.
BY MALIK SULLEMANA
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Heritage Month Ghana trends
Since the institution of the Heritage Month celebration in Ghana, it has offered citizens opportunities of a lifetime to learn about their cultures and lifestyles.
Ghana’s version is observed in the month of March, coinciding with the country’s Independence Day celebrations on March 6.
Show host, George Sappor in full
regalia as a traditional leader
outfit to mark Independence Day and
Heritage Month. She usually does it with
husband and best friend, Kofi Aduonum
but in his absence, she maintained the
poise to attract the atte
Heritage Month features festivals, food fairs, arts, crafts, and music events to highlight the economic and social value of preserving national heritage.
Though a brainchild of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), the celebration has been driven to greater heights by local media with the organisation of several events to create the needed euphoria.
at Original TV gave
culture a touch of ‘old
school’ in her presentation
last Tuesday to wow
her audience as part of
the station’s Heritage
Month celebration
Among the events are the Heritage Caravan and Back To Your Village Food Bazaar powered by Accra-based Citi FM and Citi TV, Wear Ghana Festival and the Gɔbɛ festival powered by 3News.
The Heritage Caravan is a road trip which takes patrons across more than half of Ghana’s regions to offer a distinctive road trip that allows participants to explore the various regions of Ghana, providing an up-close encounter with the country’s historical and cultural heritage.
In addition to these roles played by the media, news anchors and other presenters appear on screens immaculately garbed in locally made outfits, bringing out the beauty of our traditions.
Today, The Spectator newspaper selected a few of the media personalities that are working to give the celebration a global dimension to project the country.
By Andrew Nortey
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MoMo vendor 24 murdered at Kwadaso
A disturbing crime has shaken the Kwadaso Onion market community in Kumasi, leaving family and friends grieving the loss of a young life.
Identified only as Junior, a 24-year-old mobile money vendor, was found murdered in his room on Saturday, March 8, 2025.
According to eyewitnesses, Junior had returned home the previous day with a substantial amount of money, over Gh¢20,000.
It was suspected that the killers might have been motivated by the large sum of money in Junior’s possession.
A police source that confirmed this to The Spectator, said investigation has been launched into Junior’s murder, but so far, no arrests have been made.
The Kwadaso community is reeling in shock, calling for justice and an end to the atrocity that has claimed the life of a young and promising individual.
Junior, is believed to be a native of Ejisu Onwe, and was known to his colleagues and friends as a hardworking and diligent individual who worked at the Kumasi Race Course.
His tragic death serves as a stark reminder of the risks and challenges mobile money vendors faced.
The incident comes barely a month after Patricia Nimako, a 27-year-old Mobile Money (MoMo) vendor, was shot and killed at Krofrom, Kumasi in the Ashanti region by an unknown assailants.
The suspected armed robbers fled with the deceased cell phones and an amount of GH¢10,000 on Thursday, February 13, at approximately 3:00 p.m.
The two armed robbers reportedly stormed the kiosk where the deceased was operating and without any provocation shot her dead.
There has not been any arrest yet by the police.
From Kingsley E. Hope , Kumasi
