According to Ms. Nana Serwaa Amoako, Technical Advisor on Agriculture at the president, Ghana will build up a fertiliser production factory in a few months to accommodate the increased demand of farmers in the nation.The objective of establishing domestic fertiliser growth organization program is advancing in the proper way, and processes are around 95% complete, and fertiliser production plant would be in operation in few months.
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This was said by Ms. Amoako during the FERARI coordination meeting yesterday in Accra, which had as its theme "Global Fertilizer and Food Crisis: Mitigation Strategies for Ghana."The conference aimed at looking at the issues with fertiliser in the country and the way forward with the situation.Ms. Amoako noted that the global fertiliser issue was pressing and needed a long-term solution to getting fertilisers to farmers.
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She also acknowledged the efforts of government to introduce a programme since 2018 on how to expand the fertiliser sector.“For the long-term plans, the Ghana government has taken fertiliser to a different level by bringing up the Ghana fertiliser expansion programme where a set of teamwork to develop feasibility studies to develop a fertiliser manufacturing plant using our local natural gas,” she said.
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The program director of FERARI, Dr Prem Bindraban who was excited in supporting the Ghana government implement its programme said it was necessary as the programme would impact more in reaching more farmers.He said the current fertiliser and food crisis underlined the importance of the responsible use of fertiliser resources to enhance the resilience of the food system.
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“We want to work with the Ghana government because it has policies that would increase productivity, the first thing we have to do is to build on capacity, in that regard, we are working with seven institutions, five universities and two research centres in Ghana,” he said.
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FERARI is an international public-private partnership that builds science-based approaches to site-specific fertilisation strategies for widespread adoption by farmers in Ghana for improved food and nutrition security.Again, FERARI operates in conjunction with the Programme Planting for Food and Jobs of the Government of Ghana (PFJ-GoG) to embed development efforts into national policy priorities to reach impact at scale.
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FERARI also helps the PFJ-GoG to establish a Ghana National Fertiliser Platform and develops its soil mapping expertise toward an information platform.
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