The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) invited AgriConnect to participate in its E-Learning Week 2024. On Tuesday 9th July, the AgriConnect Team led two learning sessions under the theme “AgriConnect… digitally empowering our youth to lead the modernization of agriculture in Ghana’. 

AgriConnect took the opportunity to launch its 4-part podcast focused on Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship. This podcast forms part of the AgriConnect supplemental course on Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship. The Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship podcast is designed around the 4 modules of the course as follows:

AgriConnect has helped me a lot. When I got to Level 400, I was wondering how I would get a laptop to do my project work. Because of the actual costs of laptops, it would not have been easy to for me to get one. Fortunately, AgriConnect popped up. When I heard about AgriConnect, I said, “wow, this is a big opportunity for me”. I also did not have access on how to use a laptop and internet etc. and the courses, I think my knowledge and work has improved. I have been using the laptop to do my project work and that has helped me a lot.

I was selling rice in the market for four years to help send my sisters to school. One day I started to look at food and said that without food you cannot survive. I went to my mother and told her I want to study food as it is important for human survival, and I want to know more about food. Where I am coming from there is no internet access and I never had a laptop and so it was difficult for me to type, and I learned how to do this through the course.

My father did not go to school. He is a farmer, so when I wanted to go to school, and I told him I wanted to study agriculture, he said, I am a farmer, what have I gotten from the farm. He said I sent you to school to come out of the farm, you want to farm to do what. But I said, farming is my passion! As of now, anytime my father is going to the farm, he wants to engage me, asking what I have learnt, and I have been advising him and now he is getting more yield, and he is very happy with my studies.

When I heard about AgriConnect, I did not hesitate at all became with a laptop going for 862 Cedi – that is so cheap, given the price of laptops. I needed to know the benefit of buying the laptop. The courses have helped me. The new technologies in agriculture, for example – such as drones. I want a drone. 

When I saw the laptops, I got excited. I went to my sister to ask her to talk to my dad about the laptop. My dad was like no problem, and he gave my sister the money to give me. My dad was not happy, I went to my sister. He said with that opportunity, I should have come to him directly. “The courses have been beneficial to me. I have enjoyed the Girls in ICT Day event, I enjoyed all of it, it was nice being part of it”