The Okuafo Pa Agricultural Training Centre has held a graduation ceremony for the first batch of trainees in Dormaa East, Bono Region.
The ceremony was scaled down in order to adhere to the COVID-19 guidelines, with a group of trainees in attendance to represent the 800 graduands.
The event marked the successful completion of training of the first batch of 800 students in the face of challenges posed by the COVID-19 global pandemic.
All trainees of Okuafo Pa, made up of approximately 450 men and 350 women aged between 18 and 40 years, will now get post-training support to access the labour
market or to obtain credit facilities to set up their own businesses.
The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto said that “By implementing the project, Eni is partnering with the Government of Ghana in its transformational agenda”.
About Okuafo Pa Agricultural Training Centre
The Centre was inaugurated in November 2019 in the presence of the Italian Prime Minister H.E. Giuseppe Conte, the Senior Minister of Ghana H.E. Yaw Osafo-Maafo and the CEO of Eni Mr. Claudio Descalzi.
The long-term vision of Okuafo Pa is to create an agro-industrial hub that will aggregate and develop self-sustainable agricultural cooperatives that contribute to the socio-economic development of the host Region. Selection of the second batch of 800 trainees for the 2021 training year has started and will be completed by end of this year.
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