The 2018 National Best Farmer, James Boateng, has built smart classroom for farmers in the country.
The project is located about 25 kilometres from Nkoranza, the capital of the Nkoranza South Municipality in the Bono East Region.
It is a 1,500-acre multipurpose commercial farm.
The vast multipurpose farm comprises of a 500-acre mango plantation, 200-acre cashew plantation, 100-acre oil palm plantation and a 100-acre orange plantation.
Others are a 300-acre teak plantation, 30-acre cocoa farm, fishpond with about 10,000 different species of fish, an animal husbandry with about 200 goats and sheep and a snail farm with 11,000 snails among others.
There are 17 household settlements in the farm where labourers and their families are settled while inhabitants of 15 villages around the farms also provide labour for the Kwafre Farms.
The nearest town to the Kwafre Farms is Nyinase, which is about five kilometres away, where children of the 17 households and those from its 15 surrounding villages had to trek previously for about an hour, to and fro, each day to access education.
Mr Boateng speaking to journalists after the inauguration said the establishment of the school was to give back to the households in the farms and the surrounding villages.
“They have continued to provide us with labour and it is incumbent on us to provide their children with quality education,” he stated. He said with the introduction of innovations in teaching and learning, about 60 pupils were ready to join the current pupils from the households and the surrounding villages.”
Mr Boateng also said farming was a lucrative venture and called on the youth not to consider farming as a vocation for failures in the society.
“Farming is profitable and I encourage the youth to venture into agriculture, but the government should set the tone by providing them with the needed financial and technical support,” he added.