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CSIR-CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE HOLDS OPEN DAY
The CSIR- Crops Research Institute (CRI) has held an Open Day on October 26, 2011 at the Institute premises at Fumesua. The Open Day was with the theme: “Harnessing Agricultural Research for National Development”.

The aims were to showcase the institute’s latest technologies in the production of maize, rice, cassava, yam, cocoyam, pepper, mangoes, citrus and other export crops, and also to interact with the general public to highlight the importance of Science and Technology to national development.
The event was attended by the Minister of Food and Agriculture Mr. Kwesi Ahwoi, Representative of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Nana Darko II, Maabang Hene, Chiefs of the surrounding communities, Directors of CSIR- FORIG, BRRI, SRI, PGRRI, Directors of MoFA, processors, farmers, the media persons and students, among others.

In his welcome address, the Director of CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Dr. Hans Adu-Dapaah briefed

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Mr. Michael Kwabena Osei was born in 1978 at Mampong in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.  He is an Assistant Research Scientist of the CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana. He has published and presented paper on a wide range of vegetables including tomato, garden eggs and African Indigenous leafy vegetables.
He has also attended a number of professional trainings in renowned Institutions such as the AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center and Wageningen, the Netherlands to enhance his research capabilities.  Michael is the first Ghanaian scientist to have reported the discovery of 3 new distinct