Abstract
This paper examines youth’s involvement and the factors hindering youth’s involvement in agriculture. The main objective is to access the engagement of Ghanaian youth in the Eastern Region in agriculture and the figure out factors hindering the youth’s involvement in agriculture. The paper finds answers to the following questions; what really induce the youth to enter into agriculture? What conditions prevents youth from engaging in agriculture? Qualitative research techniques (interviews) were used. The choice model as well as the probit model was used in this paper. It was revealed that most of the youth engaged in agriculture are male as compared to female. Also, most of the youth are not interested in agriculture because of lack of credit facilities, limited startup capital, poor faming technology, use of primitive tools, soil degradation and limited farm lands. It was further revealed the youth migrate to the urban areas to search for job, good industries to work with, good social amenities, good education, and access to loans and enjoy high standard of living in the urban areas. Attention should be given to the factors leading to youth migrating to the urban areas. In addition, the limitations facing the youth in agriculture must be examined. Keywords: Agriculture, Job choice, Migration, Unemployment, Youth. DOI : 10.7176/JBAH/9-10-03 Publication date :May 31 st 2019
Highlights
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life[1]
Studying table 2 carefully, it can be seen that the difference between males and females in the rural areas are more than the difference between male and females in the urban areas
The results indicate that urban youth obtain a higher level of education, with 70 respondents of urban youths achieving the level of a secondary school education, compared to 48 of rural youth because there are good educational facilities in the urban areas as compared to the rural areas
Summary
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food , fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life[1]. Agriculture in Ghana consists of a variety of agricultural products and is an established sector in Ghana. The majority of the youth in Ghana live in urban areas as compared to those in the rural areas. This is because most of the youth see agriculture as inferior and belongs to the old and uneducated citizens[6]. Despite Ghana’s structural transformation, with growing income and expansion of the economy, it is likely that agriculture will continue to be the leading sector of employment for most young people over the few years. Young people have to be involved and finding how agriculture can be attractive for young people is a menace to most developing economies
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