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Kumasi, August 13, GNA – Speakers at the 2024 International Youth Day have re-echoed the importance of integrating appropriate digital technologies into agriculture to make it more attractive to the youth.

Modern trends in agriculture could create more jobs for the teeming youth and address the unemployment challenge that persisted in Africa.

Professor Mrs. Rita Akosua Dickson, Vice-Chancellor, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), one of the speakers, said it was important to also focus on agriculture and agri-business to integrate appropriate digital technologies for creation of jobs for our youth.

She pointed out that, lack of innovation and modernization had been making agriculture not attractive enough for the youth.

It was therefore necessary to change the narrative by leveraging digital innovation to revitalize agriculture making it not only profitable but also very smart.

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