Agri-Impact was at the Ghana EXIM Bank's Tuesday market, a business fair organised once a month with a focus on promoting locally grown businesses. The initiative is one of the Bank’s ways of drumming home the ‘Eat Ghana and Grow Ghana’ campaign.

Responding to the need of creating job opportunity for the youth and reducing graduate unemployment in Ghana, Agri-impact has teamed up with the National Service Scheme to introduce the Youth Entrepreneurship and Skills Enhancement Program (YESEP).

Agri-impact in its line of duty providing advisory services to private sector has noted the gap in skills set between graduates and expectations of private sector entrepreneurs. Even though graduates face significant employment challenges, there are also good employment opportunities in the private sector for which the skills gap has become a disincentive for hiring. The teeming unemployed youth if properly oriented with tools and skills will adequately prepare them for future opportunities.

Demand for high starch yielding cassava roots for industrial processing is projected to increase due to private sector investments and the 1D1F policy. It is critical for farmers to increase productivity from 10MT-12MT per acre to 20-24MT to industrial demand. It against this background that AIC under the Ghana Cassava Industrialization Partnership Project (GCIPP) funded by AGRA organized capacity development workshops.

Agri-impact consult is a business development firm with rich experience in agricultural and agro-industrial advisory services. AIC was adjudged for the second time as the Agribusiness Management Consulting Firm of the year & Agribusiness Project Management Company of the year at the Prestigious Ghana Agribusiness Excellence and Leadership Awards on Wednesday, 24th November 2021, at the Marriot Hotel, Accra.

The chief of staff from the office of the Okyehene led a delegation to visit the Youth in Greenhouse Enterprise Project (YUGEP) production site at Kyebi. This was to assist 20 beneficiaries to undertake their first harvest of 600kg of cucumbers, bell peppers, and tomatoes produced from five (5) greenhouses out of the ten (10) already installed at Asikam, near Kyebi. 

On 1st August 2020, His Majesty the Asantehene commissioned 10 greenhouse clusters at the KNUST campus. His Majesty was accompanied by the new Vice-Chancellor Professor Dickson.

President Akufo – Addo on Tuesday September 8, 2020, visited Amantin Agro Processing Company Limited in the Bono East Region to inspect the progress of work and familiarise himself with the operations of the factory. The inspection forms part of activities of his two-day tour of the region.

The Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and His Royal Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, on Saturday, August 1, 2020, commissioned the Youth in Greenhouse Enterprise Project – KNUST. The greenhouses sited on KNUST campus is funded by Ghana EXIM Bank and implemented by Agri-Impact Consult (AIC).

The Executive Council of the University of Cape Coast, headed by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Joseph Ghartey paid a visit to the cluster of Greenhouses constructed with funding from Ghana EXIM Bank under the project christened Youth in Greenhouse Enterprise program (YUGEP).