About Us 

Our vision and mission

Mission

Our mission is to connect the agricultural research world to the actual agricultural ground works. By providing holistic outreach programs and demonstration to local farmers.

To provide the community with healthy and ever fresh foodstuffs.

Vision

We envision an environmentally and socially conscious generation working together to reduce daily environmental footprints in to order safeguard the health and wealth of both farmers and consumers.

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Our Primary Goals & Objectives

Promote Awareness

Promote awareness of potentially beneficial agronomic practices in collaboration with Agronomists, Agricultural students and Extension officers on sensitizing the Ghanaian farmer on the availability of the integrated pest management.

Alternative Feed Options

Provide farmers with the list of alternative feed options for livestock in Ghana particularly poultry and tilapia

Outreach

Promote agricultural students outreach programs to Farmers in Ghana

Illustrate

Illustrate a practical closed cycle agricultural system to local farmers and students with the aid of a demonstrative integrated farm.

Create a Space

Create a space for experimentation and deduction of sustainable approach to food production in both local and peri urban settings.

Financial Support

Provide other financial support to farmers by seeking sponsorship for them with our website.

Promote Fresh Consumption and Knowledge Acquisition

Become number one educative farm in the Central region of Ghana where consumers also have the chance to buy on site, promoting fresh consumption and knowledge acquisition.

Provide

Provide farmers with essential protective measures for application of pesticides and other chemicals with serious health effects.

Collective Method

Create a collective method for farmers to contribute to promoting the production of food in an environmentally friendly manner.

Educate

Provide the community with educative workshops both on the farm and on social media, through tours and sharing videos and pictures on the internet.

Our Impacts

Our aim is to deliver sustainable farming and healthy foods to the Ghanaian community.

 

Strategies:

    Construction of an educational farm
    • A site for practice, tours and experiments for agricultural students in AAK
    • A site for education of local farmers on integrated pest management
    • A site to demonstrate the various agronomic practices to reduce cost of production in livestock production.
    • A site for researches on different biological and cultural controls of pests.
    • A site for tourist attraction.
    FarmCom IPM workshops for Students

    Working with agricultural students on IPM outreach programs to local farmers of AAK communities. Trainings will be on the following topics.

    • Mode of actions of pesticides
    • Resistance of pests to pesticides
    • Different toxic levels of pesticides- Safe pesticides for the environment
    • Calibration of the Knapsack sprayer
    • Effects of pesticides and protective measures for applications
    • Alternative control methods of pests and diseases. (cultural and biological)
    FarmCom on site workshop for farmers, students and visitors

    Participants of FarmCom will be involved in offering trainings, workshops and tours to visitors, farmers and students on the farm. This will be achieved by intertwining education, farming and food sales to inspire, engage and mobilize farmers and students about the value of farming in a learning context. Engaging activities are as follows.

    • Tour on farm, explanation on interaction of different components
    • Workshop on waste management
    • Workshop on value addition of waste recycled in food production
    • Workshop on feeding alternatives for livestock
    • Designing modern crop systems using recycled materials (plastic bottles being used to serve refreshment)
    Integration of local research center for students
    • Fabrication and multiplication of entomopathogenic fungi, bacteria and nematodes for biological control of different types of economic pests.
    • Extension of research findings to local farmers.

    Did You Know?

    The goal of sustainable farmers is to develop efficient, biological systems that don’t need high levels of material inputs (aka harmful chemicals).

    There are 4 key sustainability goals: Satisfy human food needs and contribute to biofuel needs. Enhance environmental quality. Sustain the economic viability of agriculture. Enhance the quality of life for farmers, farm workers and society.

    With this type of farming, chemical pesticides or fertilizers aren’t necessary, crop diversity is encouraged, and precipitation provides irrigation water.

    According to the pesticide action network, UK. Pesticides are poisons and, unfortunately, they can harm more than just the “pests” at which they are targeted. They are toxic, and exposure to pesticides can cause several health effects. They are linked to a range of serious illnesses and diseases from respiratory problems to cancer.

    According to FAO, there are Inadequate demonstration of how livestock can play a key role in the development of sustainable agriculture in different agro-ecosystems, and the failure to transfer appropriate technologies to farmers.

     

    According to FAO, to contribute to more food security there should be improved capacity and commitment of national and international agricultural centers and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to implement strategies that contribute to the development of livestock production within specific agro-ecosystems/ecoregions.