Farmers to benefit from agriculture technology

The Executive Director of Inesfly Africa, Mr Alejandro Pons, has advocated that order and organisation should be introduced in the way innovative technology on the behaviour and control of pests and insects are transfered to farmers.

This, he said, would enable farmers to effectively monitor the behaviour patterns of pests and insects and as such be assured that their produce would stay in good condition for both local and international markets.

Insects control

Inesfly Africa, which is based in Accra, manufactures pest and  insect control products. One of its products, Inespalm, helps to protect against the red palm weevil. Another, Inesfly Insect Growth Regulator (IGR NG), prevents infestation of pests in farms and is also used in controlling insect infestation of crops on farms, on post-harvest output and on stock-in-transport. Some insects that are affected by the pesticide are fruit flies, mango seed weevil, fruit piercing moths, oil palm leaf miner, oil palm weevil, beetles and tomato mired bugs, among others.

Farmers training

Inesfly Africa has expressed its commitment to offer free training to Ghanaian farmers on new technologies identifying the behaviour patterns of pests and insects that pose a challenge to farming activities. 

Mr Pons made this known in a congratulatory message to farmers on the occasion of the celebration of Farmers Day this year. 

Free technology

He said the free training on technology transfer for farmers would begin from January, next year, all through to the following year, 2016. 

The training programme, he said, would be dubbed, “Pest Control in the New Millennium”, and it would have participating farmers equipped with modern technological approaches to pest and insect control measures.  

According to Mr Pons, the programme would be crop-specific tailored, because cocoa, banana, mango, oil palm, coconut or tomatoes do not all have the same pest or insect problems.

“Inesfly Africa, as manufacturers of pests and insect control products for agriculture, believes that healthy farms are as important as healthy farmers. That is why anything that threatens the health of farms is of paramount concern to stakeholders in the farming chain,” he said.

The Executive Director of Inesfly Africa said “in honouring Ghanaian farmers, the company has its doors open for collaboration with the relevant sectors in agriculture, regarding the transfer of the Inesfly technology to farmers.”