Welcome

The Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kumasi (KITA) welcomes you to www.kita-ghana.org our home on the Internet since 2004. The Director and staff of KITA hope that you find this web site informative and that if you can help us achieve our objectives that you will contact us. If you can't find what you are looking for please try our site map.

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In Brief

KITA is a non-profit making non-governmental institution providing vocational technical training, extension, and consultancy in general tropical agriculture to practising and prospective farmers. It is also involved in rural development and community extension.

KITA was established in 1984 as a follow up to a research report in 1976 that proposed that an agricultural technical college be established to cater for young school leavers who wish to take up farming as a career and to improve upon the skills of traditional farmers in Ghana.

In 1985 KITA was granted certificates to operate as a non-profit making institution under a Board of Trustees.

KITA has the recognition of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), Ministry of Education (MOE), Ministry of Manpower Development and Employment (MMDE).

Since then the institute has assumed national and international importance, training students from Africa, Europe and all over the world and also promoting environmental conservation and rural development.

NEWS - December 2007 - KITA awarded the ‘Best Institution‘  by the The Ministry of Food and Agriculture - more

October 2007 - KITA continues to make great strides in imparting technical vocational education and training in the West African sub region - more

NEW - For the latest photographs from KITA please see our new online photo album 

KITA introduces competency based farmer education and training programs

Kita introduces competency based farmer education and training programs to assist prospective and practising farmers to improve upon their managerial and technical skills. These short management and vocational training courses for enterprise development is tailored for farm managers, farm owners, civil servants..more..

KITA IS  A CERTIFIED MEMBER OF IFOAM

(International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements) and has been making a major contributing to the promotion of organic and natural farming in Ghana.

In October 2006, KITA was approved as an exporter of organic and natural agricultural products for the produce of farmers trained at KITA. KITA Looks forward to network with interested organic importers and exporters from around the world.

Goals

Its goal is training, consultancy, research for agriculture and rural development and the protection of the environment for sustained increase in agricultural productivity.

The activities of the institute revolve around this goal with special reference to youth, women, and peasant farmers at grassroots level.