Executive Director for Agrihouse Foundation, Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa ,has urged queen mothers and traditional leaders in the country to prioritize their working relationships with the agribusiness community.
She said, while the Gathering of the Royals event aims at supporting the sector in this light, it is equally important that queen mothers and traditional leaders make the most of the opportunities being created by the event.
Speaking at this year’s 5th edition of the Gathering of the Royals event, held in Accra on the theme, “, “Championing Agri-growth through our Queen Mothers – The Agri booster Module,” the Executive Director noted that the event has over the years helped to strengthen the provision of extension services to farmers in the rural areas, while it also continues to work with agribusiness leaders and organizations to initiate agri-focused community projects for the empowerment of women farmers, the youth and person with disabilities in rural areas and farming communities.
Touching on impacts, she added, “we realized that in some areas, extension officers were not even going there. But because of the program, we have extension offers going there.”
Furthermore, through this initiative, we have been able to work with traditional leaders, queen mothers to introduce key interventions; a key one being the 1household 1garden initiative where we received great support from AGRA.
Again, we have been able to get input dealers like OCP and Yara , who have gone into the communities to embark on key trainings using the queen mothers as the community entry point, she added.
Ms. Akosa therefore encouraged the queen mothers and traditional leaders to make the most of the platform, as she urged government, development partners and agric institutions who were present at the event to offer more technical and financial support.
According to her, it is her wish that every Queen mother will take advantage of the opportunities that the event will offer, and see how collectively they can work to strengthen the Agric sector, she also commended the Government, and developing partners for supporting the initiative of Agrihouse Foundation.
Dignitaries who participated in the event included, Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture, Hon yaw Frimpong Addo, Madam Dorothy Effah from AGRA, Madam Garcia Honvoh Chabi Who Is the Senior Commercial Advisor for Embassy of Denmark, COP/ Mrs. Habiba Y. A. Twumasi-Sarpong, Director-General of Welfare, Ghana Police Service, madam Dorothy Effah, policy officer for AGRA and Dr Andoh Mensah from CSRI, Coconut and Oil Palm Research, among others.
