Staff of Yara Ghana accompany Danquah Addo-Yobo to collect the plaque
YARA GHANA, a leading name in fertilizers in Ghana, won the agro input of the year-fertilizer at the maiden Ghana Cocoa Awards held in Accra recently.
The company’s input package for cocoa which is the Asaase Wura and YaraLiva Nitrabor were shortlisted among other cocoa fertilizer inputs for the category and came out top at the event.
The award was received by the Managing Director of Yara Ghana Limited, Danquah Addo-Yobo.
Addo-Yobo commented that Yara Ghana was encouraged to continue with its support for the cocoa sector. Commenting further, he indicated that Yara Ghana had played a pioneering role in the fertilizer input sector of Ghana’s cocoa industry with the introduction of Asaase Wura cocoa fertilizer in 2005.
The introduction of the Asaase Wura cocoa fertilizer helped improve cocoa farmers’ yields and profitably quite significantly.
“Results from several demonstration farms across cocoa growing areas have shown that Asaase Wura and Nitrabor package has consistently shown an average percentage yield increase of 50% for the plots that had Asaase Wura and Nitrabor applied, compared to the traditional farm practice plots,” the managing director further intimated.
“Along with our distribution and retail partners, Yara also organizes crop clinics and training programmes and reaches thousands of cocoa farmers every year, through the Healthier Cocoa Campaigns. Several thousands of farmers have been trained over the past years under this programme,” he further added.
Addo-Yobo further took the opportunity to acknowledge the collaboration and support of the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) regarding trials on Asaase Wura and Nitrabor and the Ghana Cocoa Board and reiterated that Yara Ghana would continue to support the Ghana Cocoa Board in its drive to improve the sector.
The Ghana Cocoa Awards, an initiative of VC Media Limited, recognizes and celebrates outstanding achievements in the Ghana cocoa value chain. The finalists were drawn from a total of 161 entries filed by individuals, companies and institutions operating within the Ghana cocoa value chain.