Our vision

Our vision for the farming project is to help free the land from ownership disputes and help them develop it for agriculture purposes. Our area of focus is around the Adaklu District, which has about 62 villages with thousands of acres of very fertile land that is used mainly for cutting firewood, hunting and a little farming. If Ghana would develop their land they would not only have enough food for their country, but would be able to export and support other nations. Our goal is that they may always have enough food to eat, and make some extra money for hospital bills and help pay for their children’s education.

Help secure land for farmers
Provide farming equipment
Provide training and help with land preparation to harvesting, storing and marketing

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One of the most successful things in the quest of agriculture development has been providing them access to modern agriculture equipment. When the people in the community saw the equipment, they gained courage and started clearing bigger plots so we could come and plow for them. Foster, who is from the community and works with us, at the end of the dry season in 2011 said to me “we still have maize in the community, and it is because we have all this farm equipment, if was not for that, we would be out of maize and we would have to go to other places outside to look for maize, and it would be expensive and difficult for us” People from the city have also started coming to look for maize to buy in our community!

We have built a small shop and have many of the most needed tools.
We have bought a 60 acre plot of land and developed 24 acres of that for experiment purposes, job creation and revenue for the charity. Main crops are pine apple, maize and yam.
We have trained a number of tractor operators who also provide tractor services to about 17 villages in the surrounding area. In 2010 they ploughed for 146 farmers, a total of 120 acres. In average less than an acre per farmer.
We have a farm manager who looks after the ministry farm and also helps to advise the farmers in the community
We have helped developed a 10 acre community farm in the village of Sikama
We now have a bull dozer, 6 good working tractors and other equipment

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For the next few years we plan to help the farmers develop more land, set up drying, processing and storage equipment/buildings to help the farmers become self-sustainable. Then expand to other communities.  We also want to build a barn for all the equipment to protect it from theft and the hot sun.

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Funding for Building/Barn to protect the equipment
Set up drying systems
Build storage buildings
Develop more land

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Adaklu used to be a forest. Now they have what is called a bush land with elephant grass, shrubs and big stumps where the trees use to be. Any trees that grow are cut down for firewood. Our plan is to work with the “Ghana Government Reforestation” to preserve some areas and also plant trees where needed.

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