Ghana to encourage ag production with science
The S3A, an initiative designed under the auspices of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), and sanctioned by the African Union Commission and NEPAD Agency in 2012 has the vision of a science-driven transformation of Africa’s agriculture.
The consultative workshop, attended by professionals and experts in science and applied sciences, at the four-day workshop which ended on Friday, was to discuss and roll-out and implementation that would allow science to drive agriculture in Ghana.
Dr Victor Agyeman, Director General of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which hosted the consultative workshop, said the UN had indicated that Africa’s Agribusiness industry would be worth $ 1 trillion by 2030 and so, by any standard, agribusiness was on the path to becoming the new oil on the continent.
He said it was therefore appropriate that African countries prepared themselves to embrace the opportunity to grow their agricultural sector.
source: ghananewsagency.org
