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Following weeks of hard work and exuberance exhibited by 108 Junior and Senior High School students across the country in this year’s School Farm Competition, the program has come to an end with an award ceremony organized by Blue Skies with support from Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC) on 24th November 2022.
 
Present at the event were representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ghana Education Service, relevant departments and agencies within the agricultural, educational and development sectors, as well as key opinion leaders such as Traditional Chiefs. Member of Parliament of Awutu-Senya, Hon. Gizella Tetteh-Agbotui was also present at the event. Representatives of the Mastercard Foundation and Cargill Ghana were also present.
 
The School Farm Competition, initiated by Blue Skies Foundation, is an agricultural school challenge project that aims to increase the desire of young people through learning experiences, by providing the schools with inputs (seed and basic farm tools) to cultivate their crops on designated school farms. This will encourage them to consider agriculture as an income generating venture in their life journey, whiles improving Ghana’s food security.
 
The program aligns with KIC’s mission of driving innovation to create and apply commercial solutions to Ghana’s key development challenges, starting with agriculture. Through the support programs organized by KIC, they are able to spot and invest in young Agripreneurs with remarkable innovations. KIC also provides support through tailored coaching, skills building, expert mentorship, seed funding, and facilitating connections within and across industries.
 
The Executive Director of KIC, Benjamin Gyan-Kesse said the School Farms Competition exposes young people to the opportunities that are available within the agriculture value chain. “Young people are not very interested in agriculture despite the good opportunities it provides. At KIC, we believe in drawing the interest of young people towards agriculture using innovation KIC Ghana, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation came on board to leverage and help scale up this laudable initiative to reach more schools. The School Farm Competition provides the perfect grounds for this,” he said.