Tepa (Ash), March 4, GNA - About 256 people in the Ahafo-Ano North district of Ashanti have received a three-day training in snail and grasscutter production, under the Vocational Agriculture Training Programme.

It was organised at Tepa, Suponso and Manfo by the Biodiversity Utilisation and Development (CBUD) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi.

The programme was aimed at training people in the informal sector to enable them to acquire the skills so that they could be self-employed.

Mr Oswald Nature, the Training Co-ordinator of the project, said these at the end of the training at Tepa on Monday.

He said CBUD would provide gastropods for people who would construct structures for their rearing and give 900,000 cedis to those who would show interest in grasscutter production to construct cages.

Mr Moses Ankah, assemblyman for Amakrom-Tettekrom, who took part in the training, expressed appreciation to the government for making it possible for the participants to acquire employable skills.

Miss Victoria Bonsu, another participant, commended the government and the district assembly for making efforts to solve the country's unemployment problems. She said with the skills participants had acquired and the assistance promised by CBUD, they would work hard to create employment for themselves.