15,000 farmers in Ghana trained in sustainable organic farming
The group has also trained 15,000 farmers nationwide. Mr Lorenzo Esmeralda, the Development Manager of Tikola in charge of West Africa, made this known when he addressed farmers at a Fruit and Vegetables Fair at the Ankobra in the Nzema-East Municipality of the Western Region.
He said the move formed part of measures to train farmers to adopt sound farming practices to produce good quality vegetables with improved hybrid seeds and to become more competitive on the global market.
He said his outfit trained farmers to adopt modern technology such as nursing of seedlings and mulching without the usage of pesticides.
He said the vegetable sector must be driven by innovation through safe vegetable production without the use of agro-chemicals and contaminated water, hence the need to adopt row planting and good seedlings, which would will ensure inclusive economic growth.
Mr Arthur urged the government to create an enabling environment and the awareness on planting hybrid seeds to attract the youth into the vegetable sector to achieve safe production, food security and food sufficiency.
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