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Agriculture Business Partnerships (RABPs) has been inaugurated in the Western Region to develop commodity worth chains and market linkages for improved market entry for farmers.
The initiative would create pleasant and cheaper market platforms to reinforce inside commerce amongst members.
It can even present a stage for the formation of an apex platform, specializing in the sustainable prepared marketplace for agriculture commodities in the Region.
Mr Felix Blay Kenya, Axim District Agric Director, underscored the significance of the RABPs and stated agriculture was a enterprise and as such farmers and worth chain members wanted to make enterprise selections to develop their companies.
However, he stated, there should be dependable info to make the correct agri-business selections, therefore the formation of RABPs in any respect ranges of the Region.
He stated the final word purpose of participating in farming was to generate earnings and it will be of no worth if farmers didn’t get sufficient cash for his or her produce.
In that regard, he stated, the RABPs platform would supply farmers and all these on the agricultural worth chain the data wanted to make the specified choice that might considerably enhance their enterprise.
“It is not enough if farmers receive assistance from Agric extension officers to cultivate their produce, but farmers are not able to sell to get enough from what they are doing,” he stated.
Mr Kenya urged all in the worth chain to make full use of the platform to successfully promote their work.
He stated RABPS was being fashioned in all of the Regions of the nation and indicated {that a} nationwide Agri-business platform would quickly be created and inaugurated.
He stated the Region had facilitated the formation of comparable platforms in all Districts and urged the chain members at that degree to make it extra energetic for it to attain its meant goal.
Mr Frederick Aygapong, Chief Director, Western Regional Coordinating Council (WRCC), famous that the platform would go a good distance to assist farmers to showcase their merchandise to entrepreneurs and in the end enhance agriculture in the Region.
With the formation of the RABPS, farmers could have quick access to veterinary providers, seeds, fertilizers and different inputs to enhance their companies.
He stated WRCC would supply the mandatory assist to make sure the efficient functioning of the platform and inspired all stakeholders to utilize the platform to enhance their agri-business.
In a brief presentation on the RABPS, Mr Ebow Dublin, Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of the Department of Agriculture, famous that farmers in Ghana typically didn’t get sufficient cash from their produce as a result of unavailability of a prepared market, stressing that farmers shouldn’t wrestle to promote their produce.
He stated the platform would create market linkages that assist the commodity worth chain in the Western Region and assist safe prepared markets for agricultural produce.
The goal, he stated, was to develop Western Region agriculture by the worth chain strategy and promote market linkages for improved market entry.
This, he indicated, required initiatives that might enhance manufacturing and hyperlink farmers to the commodities market.
Mr Francis Odoom of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) took individuals by the processes of issuing licenses to meals processors and referred to as on the stakeholders in the agricultural worth chain to make sure that native produces met the requirements and have been protected for consumption.
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