TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH: CSIR-CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ENGAGES FARMERS AND INDUSTRY PLAYERS
The CSIR-Crops Research Institute has engaged stakeholders in agricultural research to emphasize the need for local support towards agriculture. At its recently held “Open Day 2018” which came off on Tuesday, 24th July, 2018, the Director of CSIR-CRI, Dr. Stella Ama Ennin, bemoaned the lack of local funding for research. She revealed that most research projects engaged in by the Institute are funded by foreign donors in countries such as Canada, USA among others who most often have a specific interest.
She indicated that, research into the recent invasion of Fall Army Worms (FAWs) in most parts of the country has not received much support from local stakeholders. This, she said has led to the lack of adequate research into breeding crop varieties resistant to the phenomenon.
“This Fall Army Worm menace is our problem. It is not a Canadian or American problem. We shouldn’t sit and wait for the Government of Canada or America to come solve it for us. It might take forever”, she said.
“This Fall Army Worm menace is our problem. It is not a Canadian or American problem. We shouldn’t sit and wait for the Government of Canada or America to come solve it for us. It might take forever”, she said.
The newly appointed Executive Chairman of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Professor Robert Kingsford Adaboh on Wednesday, 17th January, 2018 visited the CSIR-Crop Research Institute at Fumesua. Accompanying him was the Director General of the Council, Professor Victor Kwame Agyeman and the Administrative Director, Mr. Adam Issahaku. The purpose of the visit was to officially introduce the newly appointed Executive Chairman to staff of the
The Crops Research Institute is decrying lack of government support in fighting the Fall Armyworm invasion.
-Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI) and others have received the Best Maize Breeding Team, 2016 award under the project, Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA). The team representing Ghana was coordinated by Dr. (Mrs.) Priscilla Francisco Ribeiro, a research scientist from CRI who received the AWARD on behalf of Ghana. The other organizations are; CSIR Savanna Agriculture Research Institute (SARI), Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Savanna Seed Service Company, M&B Seed Company and Antika Seed Company. They received a cash prize of three thousand US dollars (US$3000) and a plaque.
Research Institute (CSIR-CRI), on Wednesday, 14th March, 2018 reconstituted its Management Board to give policy direction to the Director of the Institute. Dr. Abu Sakara Foster, a Development Agronomist and Executive Chairman of SAKFOS FARMS was appointed as Chairman of the Board.
The Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Mrs. Patricia Appiagyei has expressed excitement at the level of research activities taking place at the CSIR-Crops Research Institute and has called on government to pay particular attention to the Institute concerning its “Planting for Food and Jobs” and