News Archive

News 2006

October - KITA approved as an exporter of organic and natural agricultural products

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.

September - It is always good to hear from students who trained with us at KITA. We have received some great news from Alhaji Charles P Mensah that he has been awarded a certificate of merit for ‘Best District Roots and Tuber (Yam) Farmer’ at Assin South District in his first year of cultivating yam. Read the full story and see the photographs here!

May - Course Manual & Admission forms for Diploma in Tropical Agriculture added to downloads

Download the Course Manual and Admission Forms here

April - Kita-Ghana.org Portal listing

Kita-Ghana.org is now listed in the new Ghana search engine portal where you can find almost anything and everything about Ghana

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July - Registrations being taken now for 2005/06 Academic Year

KITA is now taking registrations for the new intake of Farmers and Students for the 2005/2006 academic year. Prospective students should call the school for their registration forms or write to the Administrative Department via email kita_ghana@yahoo.com with their own contact address so that the registration forms can be sent out.

(Full contact details for KITA can be found here)

February - Back for second semester

This year about 60 Diploma students have returned for their second semester in February. About 20 trainees have completed specialist short courses in Poultry production, Organic Farming & Permaculture, Irrigation Technology, Farm Management, Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship.

February - Training unemployed youth

KITA is currently involved in the training of about one thousand (1000) unemployed youth and rural farmers in mushroom farming, bee keeping, rabbit production and organic vegetable production. The youth is being trained and organised into cooperatives under a micro credit scheme to support them in project setting for employment and wealth creation under the auspices of the Ministry of Manpower Development and Employment (MMDE)

The youth are being organised under the NATIONAL YOUTH AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE CENTRES which are being established in all regions in the Northern sector of the country, i.e. Upper East, Upper West, Northern, Brong Ahafo, and Ashanti Region. In these centres of which there are about ten (two in every region). In the first phase of the pilot program, the trained youth have been organised into cooperatives and land has already been secured for them to go into large-scale environmentally-friendly and sustainable organic vegetable production, rabbit, bee keeping and mushroom production in Ghana.

We look forward to funding agencies to support these initiates under the National Youth Agricultural cooperative centres to help curb the unemployment situation in the country and help develop the youth's interest in the noble profession of farming for profit.

We hope to develop these centres with permaculture and global eco-village designs KITA has also developed and about to launch the FUTURE FARMERS OF GHANA (FFG) CLUBS, in the junior and senior high schools in Ghana, a pilot project has began in the Ejisu Juaben District, Domeabra, Apromase and Asawase Junior High and Ejisu Secondary Technical School. The FFG clubs in the design of Future Farmers America (FFA) is to develop the interest of the Youth in the Noble Profession of Farming as a career.

January - February - STEP Program

We have also been on a camping spree in rural communities in the northern and upper regions of the country over the past two months, undertaking community youth mobilisation and training under the Vocational Agriculture Skills Training and Employment Placement (STEP) Program of the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy.