Scores of participants at this year’s “Accra Dialogue - Smart Farming Forum” have commended the management of Class Media Group (CMG) for organising the insightful event.

According to the participants who spoke on Accra 100.5 FM’s 6:00 a.m. news on Friday, March 31, 2023, a day after the programme was organized at CLOSSAG auditorium at the Ministries area in Accra, the forum was an eye-opener.

Many of them said even though they have been farming all this while, they were shocked to learn that they can farm even in their tiled homes.

This year’s dialogue was on the theme: ‘Promoting Kwahu Smart Farm and Agriculture Modernisation in Ghana’ and was the third in the series of dialogues organised by the management of CMG in partnership with Shamba Partnership International.

The first Accra Dialogue centered on security in the Kasoa area of the Central Region and the second was on the state of sanitation in the county where the Minster for Sanitation and Water Resources was in attendance.

A spokesperson for Shamba Partnership International, Mr Tony Mensah Abrampa, speaking in an interview explained that people are interested in farming but do not know how to make it a part of their daily activities without having to go through the hustle of acquiring vast land.

He said the only way to make farming attractive in this current stage of technology to the youth is smart farming.

He noted that smart farming has taken out the drudgery associated with farming.

He noted that with smart farming, people can do other things and still farm alongside. 

He said his organisation will continue to teach and create awareness on the benefits of smart farming for the teeming unemployed youth to see farming as an incentive and not punishment.

For his part, the Head of Sales and Marketing at CMG, Mr Baffour Atuahene, took the opportunity to thank the participants as well as the resource persons for making the forum a success.

He was glad the forum was able to make available all the needed resource persons to explain some of the thorny issues that have always engaged the minds of participants.