The farmer, who expressed the willingness to make his farms available for use by senior high school students for practical work, said such offers could encourage more of the young people to venture into farming after school.

The farm includes crops that can be planted on all soils of the country such as banana, cocoa, coco yam, palm nut, sugar cane, noni fruits and plantain among others as well as ruminants such as rabbits, grass cutters, and snails.

He said he uses local technologies and methods to prepare feed for his fish and that waste water from the pond was used to water the crops.

Mr Azumah, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said when given the right financial and technical support, he could grow these crops and animals on large scale in the Upper East Region.

He urged the youth in the region to take advantage of government’s policy of ‘Planting for Food and Job’s adding that a well supported farming programme could come to fruition in the region if stakeholders attached importance to the sector.

Mr Azumah said the Zabilla Senior High School use his farm as a practical field to teach students, especially agric students to have practical feel of the course adding that a combination of theory and practical work made the teaching of the course easier.

He said challenges confronting him and his colleague farmers in the agric sector were the lack of all year round water for farming and the absence of financial and technical skills to support the sector.

The Best Fish Farmer has seven fish ponds with about 5000 fish in each pond, snails, and variety of crop and vegetables species.