By: Yvonne Atilego
Manager of B,-BOVID Farms at Angu, in the Shama District of Western Region Issa Ouedraogo is appealing to Farmers to switch to climate-smart Agriculture to boost their business. According to him, he will continue to lead this drive as a way to see a change in Agricultural practices in the country. On his farm, Issa Ouedraogo has a 15-acre garden, named it garden of Eden which has ecological and agro-forestry with vegetables and other products in it. He has also set up three big dams, to demonstrate climate smart Agricultural technology for future farming.
Speaking during a visit by local tourists to the farm to see how climate-smart Agriculture techniques are boosting farming activities in B-BOVID farms, Edward Tei Sarpong, who is the Coordinator of Good Governance Africa, who took over one hundred school pupils to B-BOVID farms, expressed satisfaction about the impact of the new module of Agriculture being used by the entrepreneur to inform farmers to reform and transform their activities. This new socially inclusive module of farming, he noted would keep the farmers active, proactive and productive.
The tourists commended Issa Ouedraogo, the social inclusive entrepreneur for using a new module of Agriculture to change an age-old narrative in farming practices.
They believe the government should work closely with the entrepreneur to expand the scope of his business and ideas to benefit more Ghanaians.
His garden of Eden, his ecological biodiversity garden, his climate-smart technology, or the innovation center, the agro-forestry, the tourists observed, still remains unique in this country, that students, farmers, and tourists are enjoying or benefiting from that, including universities and researchers like CSR.
The visitors appealed to the government to support his activities and take concrete steps to investigate issues troubling the operations of the entrepreneur.
Meanwhile, Mr Ouadraogo believes he can work with the government to expand the scope of his business and ideas to benefit more Ghanaians.
What we have been doing with B-BOVID in the last seven years, is to introduce people to his new concept of farming geared towards training farmers on sustainable Agriculture”, he noted.
