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By Benjamin Akoto, GNA
Asuboï (E / R), 4 June, GNA – The Chief
Glofert Limited's Executive Director, Reverend Foster Mawuli Benson,
called the banks to direct some of their investments in the agri-food sector
sector.
Glofert Company Limited is the largest
fertilizer blending company in Ghana.
Rev Benson talking to the media
after a program of the International Fertilizer Development Center in Asuboi
in the Eastern Region said that more banks would come to support the
Aboriginal businesses to strengthen government efforts.
The event organized by IFDC was organized
to provide international training on how to produce and distribute
Balanced fertilizers for better crop nutrition for small farmers.
70 days of training were followed.
delegates from 25 countries around the world to find out how they could better
produce fertilizers to increase production.
Glorfert limited is the biggest fertilizer
blending plant in Ghana now and mix 2,400 metric tons or 48,000 of 50
kilograms of mixed fertilizer bags per day.
The installation that started its operations a few
Two years ago, one of the projects initiated under the One District Project, a
Factory (1D1F) and should be commissioned soon.
He employed more than 220 permanent and
casual workers who come from nearby towns and communities in the district.
Reverend Benson said that one of his clothes
priorities was to be able to identify the problems that farmers faced
tailor the composition of fertilizer for them.
He said that most farmers complained about
low yields and indicated that the challenge could be the result poor agronomic practices, poor application
fertilizers and the use of only off
the shelf fertilizer over the years.
"We think Ghanaian soil is
depletion of nutrients and it is necessary to replenish the soil into nutrients,
but the only way to do that is to test the soil and mix the
fertilizers specific to the needs of the soil, "he said.
He said there, the fertilizer could be mixed
for each crop, because each crop needs certain nutrients to be able to
maximum yield.
Rev Benson said with the coming of Glofert,
it would reduce the import of fertilizer already mixed, adding
that, if previously Ghana imported everything mixed, now there is
house businesses that had the ability to produce fertilizer to meet the
special requirements of farmers.
Mr. Patrice Annequin of IFDC, declared his outfit
would enlighten all stakeholders that farmers could not afford to use a blanket
fertilizer and there must be new ways to refine the requirement of the
crops, depending on the soil so that
farmers could achieve maximum yield through the use of fertilizer.
He explained that Ghana was in the vanguard
of the new approach by which they would provide farmers with better
fertilizer to improve agricultural production.
He said that Ghana has stopped using the blanket
balanced fertilizer, which is an indication that for the first time
At the time, Ghanaian farmers would use different types of fertilizer as needed.
the crops and in what area they produced the crops.
GNA
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