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Objectives

The specific objectives include:

  • To enhance the transfer of modern agricultural
    technology to rural farmers through workshops, seminars short courses, correspondence courses, and overseas training

  • To provide vocational technical agricultural training to the youth both literate and non literate

  • To protect the environment for increased agricultural productivity

  • To assist rural farmers to have links to credit and inspire confidence of financial institutions in rural agricultural credit delivery

  • To undertake farmer-based research to develop appropriate strategies for practicing farmers, both commercial and subsistence

  • To provide consultancy to prospective and practicing farmers and trainees to establish their own agricultural projects and identify market for their produce

  • To assist rural communities to draw their own village development plans based on their local resources, to improve upon their own lifestyles

  • To liaise with local and international institutions and organisations with similar objectives
     


Hands-on organic vegetable production training

 


© Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kumasi (KITA) 2004 - 2008
Box 293, UST, Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa
Tel: 233 (0) 20 813 7164

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