The 2023 Greenconnect Season has formally been launched to provide timely information to smallholder farmers in the five regions of the north.
The intervention initiated by Agrisolve Ghana, is a multistakeholder platform to enable farmers obtain the requisite data in preparation and proper planning before the new farming season.
In her address, Executive Director of Agrisolve Ghana, Elorm Goh, observed agriculture production is engulfed with several uncertainties and farmers in her view are mostly affected due to the vulnerabilities they are exposed to.
She thereby underscored the importance of the theme for this year’s season launch, “Right Input, Right Time, Right Application”.
She maintained farmers should always be prepared and ready for every new farming season, reiterating the need for farmers to obtain timely information across all aspects of farming activities, good understanding of the farming environment and scale up their managing risks in order to succeed.
Madam Elorm Goh emphasized advance information sharing helps farming improve their risks management skills and assist them in making better farm management decisions.
Nonetheless, she intimated avenues for farmers to access every information on the farming season are scanty, fragmented and nonexistent in some cases.
“It is in my view of this that Agrisolve has designed the season launch to make information flow to smallholders in the northern sector of Ghana and prepare them in readiness to adopt to realities of the new season.”
The Executive Director further disclosed Greenconnect Technology and Support Centers have been established in 20 communities across the five regions of the north with the responsibility.
She added the Greenconnect technology center provides once top platform access to agricultural inputs, services, training and access to market after harvesting.
Madam Elorm Goh noted Agrisolve has been strategically position to provide an integrated farm improvement programs to propel farmers’ access to quality inputs and improved services all season.
Meanwhile, the program offered the smallholder farmers to interact with sector players such input suppliers, personnel of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), among other actors in the agriculture value chain in the northern sector.
The stakeholders are expected to share information, exchange ideas in order to understand their respective roles and commitments and increase information flow for the new season.
