GENERAL NEWS: Akufo-Addo to firm-up school reopening after Cabinet meeting on December 30

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  President  Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo  is receiving briefings from  COVID-19  Technical Taskforce on limited school re-openings and would make a firm decision on school reopening in January 2021 after a Cabinet meeting on December 30, 2020. Addressing a news conference in Accra on  COVID-19  Updates on Tuesday, Information Minister,  Kojo Oppong Nkrumah , said the  COVID-19  Taskforce would work throughout the Christmas period to brief the President and analyse the impact of the  COVID-19  pandemic on students, during the limited school re-openings in July, August, September, and October, this year. Government in July allowed final year students in the tertiary education institutions to complete their semester courses and wrote their exit examinations. The final year senior high school students also returned to complete their term courses and wrote the West African Examination Certificate (WAEC), while the final year Junior ...
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GENERAL NEWS: Add IT to Planting for Food and Jobs programme - Local Agritech startup to government.

The duo behind Agrocenta, a local Agritech startup, has urged the Akufo-Addo-led government to add information technology (IT) to its flagship ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ programme.

According to the 2018 Seedstars Global competition winners, government can achieve more and help the targets of the programme if IT is used to link up with the farmers.

They told Daniel Dadzie on Joy FM's Super Morning Show on Friday that they have agents to represent farmers because most of them [farmers] are not IT literate.

“One agent handles about 200 farmers,” Mr Obirikorang said.

According to him, they have advised government to employ a similar technology similar to what they run to make the Planting For Food and Jobs programme a success.

The organisation, AgroCenta is owned by two Ghanaians -Mike Ocansey and Francis Obirikorang- who have developed a system to aid farmers to get the most out of their produce.

Two young men whose ideas won them $500,000 investment from Seedstars World, added that they have fought the odds to create opportunities for others in the fast-growing Agric sector in the country.

Similar to the government’s planting for food and jobs programme, the duo has helped farmers in the north to procure seeds, fertilizer, ploughing services among others at a good bargain.

They have also helped the farmers to transport their yields to the markets since they started their project about a year and a half ago.

So far, they have enrolled about 12,000 farmers.

“We hope to expand to the entire county and then extend to Nigeria by 2019,” Mr Obirikorang said.

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