Danquah Addo Yobo
Yara Ghana Limited, the food nutrition solutions provider, continues to boost Ghana’s agricultural sector with its award-wining fertilizers.
The company’s impact is felt by farmers in the cocoa, cereal and vegetable sub-sectors of Ghana’s agricultural sector.
Ghana’s agric industry is dominated by smallholder farmers, many of whom would experience low yields without the application of fertilizers and other nutrition-boosting products.
Established in 2007 by the parent company, Yara Ghana’s success and significance to the farming community can be attributed to the fact that under the direction of its network of agronomists, it has initiated and undertaken a number of programmes to enable smallholder farmers achieve the best results.
Yara, with its locations in Accra, Tema and Tamale, has also been increasing its supply of fertilizers to the market, and improving access to fertilizers by farmers through a network of over 300 distributors and retailers across the country.
This in turn also provides indirect employment to several Ghanaians.
Crop clinics
Yara Ghana has also been offering technical support for farmers through its Crop Clinics. Along with the company’s distribution and retail partners, the Crop Clinics and its training programmes reach thousands of farmers every year.
3 Northern regions
The fertilizer market leader is very active in the three regions of Ghana’s north, a geographical region which although is endowed with agricultural production capacity, still lags behind the southern part of the country in terms of development.
In partnership with the United States Agency for International Development-ADVANCE Project, Yara Ghana supports over 130 demonstration farms on best practices in the three Northern Regions.
Yara also supports the annual Farmers’ Day awards in Ghana and many of its farmers using the company’s products have gone on to win awards at the event.
Pre-harvest agri-business confab
As a demonstration of its continuous commitment to the agric sector, Yara Ghana has provided financial sponsorship package to Agrihouse Foundation, the organisers of the Pre-Harvest Agri-business Exhibition & Conference.
The 8th edition of the Pre-harvest event will take place this year from the 3rd-5th October at the Aliu Mahama Stadium in Tamale.
The exhibition and conference will feature over 2,000 exhibitors and businesses across the agricultural value chain.
“We are hoping to see a lot of farmers and other players in the value chain attending this event. We are also expecting that a lot of networking and partnerships will be built and linkages established that will help further strengthen the agricultural value chain and enhance profitability among the various actors.”
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