Staff of Yara Ghana accompany Danquah Addo-Yobo to collect the plaque
YARA
GHANA, a leading name in fertilizers in Ghana, won the agro input of the
year-fertilizer at the maiden Ghana Cocoa Awards held in Accra recently.
The
company’s input package for cocoa which is the Asaase Wura and YaraLiva
Nitrabor were shortlisted among other cocoa fertilizer inputs for the category
and came out top at the event.
The
award was received by the Managing Director of Yara Ghana Limited, Danquah
Addo-Yobo.
Addo-Yobo
commented that Yara Ghana was encouraged to continue with its support for the
cocoa sector. Commenting further, he indicated that Yara Ghana had played a
pioneering role in the fertilizer input sector of Ghana’s cocoa industry with
the introduction of Asaase Wura cocoa fertilizer in 2005.
The
introduction of the Asaase Wura cocoa fertilizer helped improve cocoa farmers’
yields and profitably quite significantly.
“Results
from several demonstration farms across cocoa growing areas have shown that
Asaase Wura and Nitrabor package has consistently shown an average percentage
yield increase of 50% for the plots that had Asaase Wura and Nitrabor applied,
compared to the traditional farm practice plots,” the managing director further
intimated.
“Along
with our distribution and retail partners, Yara also organizes crop clinics and
training programmes and reaches thousands of cocoa farmers every year, through
the Healthier Cocoa Campaigns. Several thousands of farmers have been trained
over the past years under this programme,” he further added.
Addo-Yobo
further took the opportunity to acknowledge the collaboration and support of
the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) regarding trials on Asaase Wura
and Nitrabor and the Ghana Cocoa Board and reiterated that Yara Ghana would
continue to support the Ghana Cocoa Board in its drive to improve the sector.
The
Ghana Cocoa Awards, an initiative of VC Media Limited, recognizes and celebrates
outstanding achievements in the Ghana cocoa value chain. The finalists were
drawn from a total of 161 entries filed by individuals, companies and institutions
operating within the Ghana cocoa value chain.
