According to Professor Peter Twumasi, director of the National Sports Authority, investors, policymakers, and philanthropists must now invest in rural women to enable them to enter the field of mechanised agriculture in order to help alleviate their poverty.
According to studies, more than 50% of women in rural areas across the nation are involved in small-scale farming; as a result, he claimed, they must scale up their operations using current technological breakthroughs.
These are already active farmers' wives.
To completely engage in mechanised farming, all that is required of them is for investors to visit their rural areas and teach them modern farming techniques.
When those industrial farms were completed, he claimed, the many young people who leave their hometowns and move to the metropolis in search of unattainable opportunities would change their minds and return home because stable employment would be waiting for them in their own backyard.
Prof. Twumasi was addressing during a durbar to honour the International Day of Rural Women, which is observed annually on October 15, at Abodease in the Ahafo Ano South West District of the Ahafo Region.
"Rural Women: Cultivating Good Food for All" was the topic of the event.
The need for gender equality, women's empowerment, and better living circumstances for rural women is highlighted by the International Day of Rural Women since these women are crucial to sustainable development and poverty elimination in rural regions.
health examination
The event's industry specialists empowered the women by teaching them how to make hand gel, local soap, and detergent for household use (Alata Samina).
The participants underwent a free health checkup with a team of specialists from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, and they were once again instructed on the precautions they should take to prevent breast cancer and other disorders that are associated with it.
The poor road system and the absence of power in the town were among the people's key worries, and they pleaded with the government to help them because they had negatively impacted economic activity in the farming community.
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