Some of the participants at the training
THE KWADASO Agricultural College in conjunction with YOPOFAMCO Farms Group Limited is organising 36-day training for 35 young poultry farmers at Asante Agona in the Sekyere South Municipality of the Ashanti Region.
The training which is being funded by the Ghana Skills Development Fund (GSDF), is under the theme, “Training Of Staff On New Poultry Technologies and Management to Reduce Loses and Improve Revenue.”
The Principal of the Kwadaso Agricultural College who is also a director at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), Albert Appiah Amoakoh, welcomed the participants and urged them to take the training seriously in order to rock shoulders with their counterparts in other parts of the country.
He called on the young poultry farmers to be patient and tolerant with their workers and customers.
A facilitator at the training, Kwame Ansah Barfour, who is a tutor at the Kwadaso Agricultural College, took the trainees through various steps of having a good poultry farm.
His presentation focused on hatchery through proper ways of caring for the birds to the time they can be sold.
The director of YOPOFAMCO Farms Group Limited, Owusu Sekyere Edward, in an interview with the media explained the brain behind the workshop.
According to him, poultry farmers in Sekyere South Municipality have been encountering a lot of challenges in their work which make them lose huge sums of money every year.
He noted that the farmers have difficulties getting day-old chicks, drugs, quality feeds, veterinary services and training on time to help them reduce losses so as to maximise profit hence the group’s appeal to the Ghana Skills Development Fund (GSDF) for support.
He said GSDF favourably responded to their request and gave them a grant of GH¢ 1,081,935.51 to enable them acquire modern skills and technologies through the training and their own hatchery.
All the participants expressed their gratitude to the GSDF for coming to their aid, hoping that the training would enhance their knowledge.
FROM James Quansah, Kumasi