YARA Ghana Engages Farmers and Agri-students at 12th Pre-harvest

Yara Ghana Commercial Manager in-charge of Northern sector, Mr. Mahama Abdul Rahman has served notice that the company does not compromise on the quality and weight of their fertilizer bags.

“We have our weight on our bags, if you weigh it and it’s less than 50kg there’s number on the bag you can call, we don’t compromise on our weight and quality, some of the fertilizer comes with small particles and some come with large particles, the volume of both is the same, if you weigh and it’s not like that you can gives us a call”.

“And then for those who’re indicating that they’re not getting the product, we have ensured that at list the whole of the north where I manage at list every district has one person, some places have more than one, if in your district you don’t have a representative you can call, like I indicated we have numbers on the fertilizer bags”.

During an engagement session with farmers as part of this year’s Pre-harvest Agribusiness conference and exhibition event in Tamale, Mr. Mahama assured that Yara Ghana would continue to deliver the best services to the Ghanaian farmer.

He revealed that due to the escalating cost of inputs especially fertilizer occasioned by the covid and the Russian-Ukraine war, the company has introduced an initiative call ‘Grow Ghana’, where about three hundred and sixty thousand bags will be distributed free to farmers.

“The rational is to support up to five acres of cereal production because we recommend three bags of fertilizer for an acre, so if the farmer want to do one acre, we subsidize or we give you one bag for free, if the farmer wants to do five acres, we give him five bags for free when he buys ten bags, that’s the Grow Ghana initiative”.

According to him the initiative includes a specialized tracking and tracing application to ensure that farmers actually benefit from the product relief.

Mr. Mahama noted that the Grow Ghana initiative is also part of a series of programs designed to increase investments that will support the resilience of smallholder farmers, including women, through access to improved agricultural technologies and inputs like fertilizer, financing, and markets.

The programme, “Grow Ghana,” according to him will provide Ghanaian farmers with free bags of Yara Mila Actyva as part of a package, effectively reducing the smallholder farmer’s average fertilizer cost by one-third. The goal is to help smallholder farmers have access to enough affordable fertilizer to sustain food production, and to feed over one million people across the country.

A participant farmer, Fuseini Nantogma commended managers of the Yara Ghana for introducing the Grow Ghana initiative, stating that, it has brought relief to farmers in the country.

He however appealed to the fertilizer company to collaborate with government to further subsidize their inputs and the price of the fertilizer.