Stories

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. “Without AgriConnect, I do not know what I would have done”.

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.