Agribusiness
Ghana, 3 others achieve significant gains in maize, rice production.
Over the last five years, Ghana and three other West-African Countries have achieved significant gains in the cultivation and production of Maize, Cassava and Rice under the working partnership with AGRA [Agricultural Green Revolution For Africa] and its funding partners.
The other beneficiary countries in the West-African Sub-region are Nigeria, Mali, Burkina-Faso and the funding partners under the AGRA led initiative are Gates-Foundation, USAID, Rocky-feller, World-Bank KfW, FCDO, AfDB the EU among others.
As a result of the AGRA partnership, private sector investments in seed systems have significantly increased in Ghana, and the three other countries, resulting in greater access to improved seeds for small-holder farmers.
Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Ghana’s Minister for food and Agriculture was contributing to a Plenary Session of the Ministerial Round Table Meeting of the Agricultural Green Revolution Forum [AGRF-2021] in Nairobi, Kenya.
Agribusiness
Ghana, 3 others achieve significant gains in maize, rice production
Source: Joy Business
21 September 2021 10:04am
Over the last five years, Ghana and three other West-African Countries have achieved significant gains in the cultivation and production of Maize, Cassava and Rice under the working partnership with AGRA [Agricultural Green Revolution For Africa] and its funding partners.
The other beneficiary countries in the West-African Sub-region are Nigeria, Mali, Burkina-Faso and the funding partners under the AGRA led initiative are Gates-Foundation, USAID, Rocky-feller, World-Bank KfW, FCDO, AfDB the EU among others.
As a result of the AGRA partnership, private sector investments in seed systems have significantly increased in Ghana, and the three other countries, resulting in greater access to improved seeds for small-holder farmers.
Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Ghana’s Minister for food and Agriculture was contributing to a Plenary Session of the Ministerial Round Table Meeting of the Agricultural Green Revolution Forum [AGRF-2021] in Nairobi, Kenya.
Agribusiness
Ghana, 3 others achieve significant gains in maize, rice production
Source: Joy Business
21 September 2021 10:04am
Over the last five years, Ghana and three other West-African Countries have achieved significant gains in the cultivation and production of Maize, Cassava and Rice under the working partnership with AGRA [Agricultural Green Revolution For Africa] and its funding partners.
The other beneficiary countries in the West-African Sub-region are Nigeria, Mali, Burkina-Faso and the funding partners under the AGRA led initiative are Gates-Foundation, USAID, Rocky-feller, World-Bank KfW, FCDO, AfDB the EU among others.
As a result of the AGRA partnership, private sector investments in seed systems have significantly increased in Ghana, and the three other countries, resulting in greater access to improved seeds for small-holder farmers.
Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Ghana’s Minister for food and Agriculture was contributing to a Plenary Session of the Ministerial Round Table Meeting of the Agricultural Green Revolution Forum [AGRF-2021] in Nairobi, Kenya.
He praised AGRA and its leadership for being dedicated partners in the agricultural transformations, enjoyed by Ghana, Mali, Burkina-Faso and Nigeria over the last five years.
Dr Afriyie Akoto, noted that it was regrettable in-spite of the high level of achievements by AGRA, in the listed countries, it had suffered a lot of bad publicity in recent times.
Ghana’s Minister for Food & Agriculture, and Chairman of the ECOWAS Specialist Ministerial Technical Council for Agriculture, speaking on behalf of the Agricultural Ministers of the listed countries, registered the unflinching support of the respective governments for the good work of AGRA.
Through the partnership, the Increased use of crop-specific blended fertilizers by small-holder farmers have also shot-up the yields in maize, cassava, and rice cultivation.
Through the initiative of the AGRA partnership, the Plant Variety Protection Act has extensively been promoted in both Ghana and Nigeria to boost innovation in research to develop planting materials that command genetic advantage for farmers.
The work of the partnership he noted resulted in increased government budget allocation to the agricultural sector through flagship agricultural programmes in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Mali.
Consequently, Ghana, in 2019, was ranked fourth as the most food secure country on the continent of Africa, according to the Global Food Security Index of the Economic Intelligence Unit.
In the light of the success story of the AGRA alliance, Dr Akoto, noted that a lot still remains to be done through further collaborative efforts to scale-up the gains made so far.
This in the Minister’s view, will present as an extended opportunity for more countries in West-Africa to be beneficiaries.
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