Mr John Ayisi Jatango, Brong Ahafo Regional Agricultural Extension Officer on Thursday called for the establishment of an agricultural educational endowment fund to boost agricultural education in the formal and informal sectors.
He said with the discovery of oil in the country, a percentage of its revenue could be set aside for the fund to support agricultural education.
Mr Jatango made the call at the second annual Sunyani Polytechnic Agricultural Students Association of Ghana (PASAG) week celebration in Sunyani.
It is under the theme: "Agricultural education in Ghana - The Way Forward".

"Government as a matter of urgency must commit more resources to agricultural education because graduates from institutions of higher learning have the capacity to transform the economy into a middle income status that is desired," he said.
This, he explained, was because education held the key to the success of any developmental programme and agriculture as the mainstay of the economy encompassed almost every sector of the economy.
Mr Jatango said there was the need for a review of the curricula of agricultural training institutions because of the vast technological developments in agriculture, adding, "Training programmes must be made responsive to the needs of the country."
He explained that this required the provision of adequate practical lessons in skills development, agric-business and management entrepreneurship, post harvest handling and management of information communication technology.
Mr Jatango said those provisions could not be enough to give wider impetus to agricultural education without the availability of adequate teaching and learning materials and facilities for practical lessons and research activities.
He said agricultural development must be science-driven where the curricula of agricultural training institutions should produce graduates with solid background in the scientific and technical principle that underpinned practice and practical experience critical to developing confidence to develop holistic solutions to challenges they would encounter.
Mr Jatango said students should be given the opportunity to interact with well-established employers and entrepreneurs on what was required to have a lucrative job.
He explained that, that would build their confidence and adequately prepare them for work environment either as employees for others or as job creators, saying that emphasis should therefore be placed on self-employed field trips and industrial attachment.
Mr Twumasi Ankra Kusi-Appiah, Head of Department, General Agriculture at Sunyani Polytechnic said education in all aspects of life, particularly agricultural, was important because that was the secret behind the success story of the Asian Tigers like South Korea and Malaysia.
He said these countries stepped on the socio-economic development path at the same time with Ghana but were now advanced and ahead of Ghana because they placed emphasis on education in all sectors of their societies.
Mr Kusi-Appiah noted that Ghana could only be successful in promoting agricultural education when programmes were designed to whip the interest of pupils and students.
Mr Gabriel Tuah, President of Sunyani Polytechnic branch of PASAG, said since about 70 per cent of Ghana's workforce was employed by the agricultural sector, it was appropriate for agricultural education to be streamlined and positioned to adequately prepare the youth to take advantage of existing opportunities and those that could be created for them to provide jobs for themselves.