FAGRO partners Agritech
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The platform will be created upon the finalisation of a partnership agreement between, FAGRO, and, Agritech from Israel.
The two parties have subsequently met in Accra to deliberate on how best the partnership will bring the much awaited facelift to agriculture and the agric fairs at large.
Come next year, the annual National Food and Agric Show (FAGRO) will have a facelift from what pertains every year and will showcase technology as a main feature to help farmers learn modern techniques of agricultural marketing and effective management, aimed at ultimately increasing yield.
The Exhibition Director for FAGRO, Ms Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa, explained that with this strategic partnership, patrons to the annual agric fair should expect a bigger fair next year, which would not only involve showcasing agriculture produce by farmers.
The General Manager of Agritech, Mr Dan Meiri, reiterated the need for government to support farmers with relevant infrastructure to help them transform the agricultural landscape in Ghana.
He said support must also be given to farmers to enable them attend international exhibition and added that would help open their eyes to what they could achieve outside.
The Executive Chairman of the Great Argon Holdings Limited, Dr Torgbor Mensah, said FAGRO, which is the seed planted to showcase the nation’s agriculture produce, was getting bigger and bigger by the year.
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The partnership, he stressed, was a step in the right direction as it would help expose farmers to new ideas and techniques in farming to bring about what he termed “a revolution in agriculture.”
He said with the new face of technology in farming, the country’s agriculture would witness a leap frog from the old system of farming to what currently pertained in the world, so long as agriculture was concerned.
By Jessica Acheampong/Graphic Business/Ghana