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Graduates from the various universities and other tertiary institutions in the country have been admonished to develop interest in setting up their own business rather than putting all their hope on government and others in the private sector in securing employment after school.

Professor Rosemond Boohene a lecturer at the Business School of the University of Cape Coast and Lead Consultant for the Graduate Enterprise Development Initiative ( GEDI) project gave the advice at a workshop on Writing of Business Plan, for the first batch of graduates who are being trained to be able to run their own agric -related businesses.

Prof . Rosemond Boohene said a total of 300 graduates across the country are going to be trained in batches under the GEDI project over three years by the Export Trade, Agriculture and Industrial Development Initiative(EDAIF) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

She said a total of 60 out of the 300 graduates to be trained over the next three years whose business plans will be adjudged the best will be given hundred thousand Ghana cedis each ( Ghc 100, 000.00) to run and expand their agric- related businesses.

Dr Osei Bafour of EDAIF and Ghana Exim Bank said the GEDI project places emphasis on how innovative ones business is , in order to qualify for the EDAIF funding and therefore urged young people entering into their own business to be highly innovative to attract more market.