It may take some time before efforts to focus the attention of women and young people on agriculture as an entrepreneurial option take traction, but Marissa Lowden, Gender Equity and Youth and Marketing Programme Officer for the Canadian-funded Promotion of Regional Opportunities for Produce through Enterprises and Linkages (PROPEL) believes that satisfying progress is being made.
A measure of the success of the PROPEL project in pursuit of its objective of popularizing farming as a business venture in the face of various other more ‘attractive’ options reposes in the fact that the initial target of taking it to 120 women and young people has been exceeded. The number of adherents stands at around 200.
As the project grows, the participating women and young people are raising their farming pursuits to a
