An opinion leader of Gomoa-Asebu in the Central Region, Nana Kofi Koomson, has called on the Ministry of Education to treat the teaching of Agriculture as a core subject in Primary Schools.<\/p>\n
He said the time has come for the country to inculcate the habit of farming from infancy so that the children would no longer see farming as a prohibitive profession to pursue when they grow up.<\/p>\n
Nana Kofi Koomson made the call when he interacted with a group of school children and pressmen at Gomoa-Pomadze, near Gomoa-Asebu on issues, bothering the teaching of agriculture in the country\u2019s educational institutions.<\/p>\n
He said that, if the various forms of agriculture were effectively introduced to children right from infancy they would accept and firmly embrace it as a lifelong profession even before they completed their respective academic programmes in higher places of learning.<\/p>\n
Nana Kofi Koomson warned that failure to train and sustain the interest of the next generation in agriculture would cause the nation a serious setback in her socio-Economic development in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
He said \u2018\u2019we should let the younger generation particularly the school going children realize that the time parents and children regarded weeding as punishment was gone forever\u201d.<\/p>\n
Nana Koomson expressed the hope that teaching the nation\u2019s future administrators and other professionals Agriculture, would really yield fruitful results for the country.<\/p>\n
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