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Adopt digital marketing platforms to promote OFSP businesses - Central Region NBSSI Head urges agribusiness players
July 05, 2021
Mr. Emmanuel Deteah, the Head of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) in the Central Region is urging agribusiness players to adopt digital marketing platforms to promote their Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes (OFSP) businesses.
At a two-day workshop organised for agribusiness players in the Central Region on OFSP, Mr. Deteah, urged the need to embrace the new way of marketing on the internet and expand knowledge on the usage of smartphones to do marketing.
According to him, “Now, facebook has a number of features beyond just posting pictures and receiving many likes from your relations at the expense of your OFSP business. Nobody pays anybody to advertise on facebook”.
Process OFSP into flour as a value addition component - CSIR-FRI Research Scientist urges agribusiness players
July 05, 2021
Dr. John Edem Kongor, a research scientist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Food Research Institute (CSIR-FRI) is urging players within the agribusiness industry especially food processors and value chain actors to process Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP) into flour as a value addition component to what they produce to sustain consistent consumption.
He said the traditional methods used to prepare the OFSP including frying, roasting boiling may eventually create boredom and draw away consumers, hence processing the produce into flour and adding it to all kinds of foods should be the new way to sustain consumption.
'Public Perception about science makes communication of agricultural technologies challenging’-CSIR Head of Corporate Affairs
June 07, 2021
- We live in a noisy world where people are inundated with information 24/7. If you want to make sure your audience hear what you have to say, and take the actions you’re hoping for, you must be strategic in your communication.
- MITA is to promote the discovery of improved technologies and facilitate exchanges and purchase-sale transactions between promoters and users of improved technologies.
- Actionable communication is about inspiring others to take an action either on your or someone else’s behalf
Ms. Benedicta Nkrumah-Boateng, the Head of Corporate Affairs at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has said that, a major hindrance in communicating agricultural technologies is due to public perception that science is difficult.
- CoP is a group of people who share a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic and who come together to fulfill both individual and group goals.
- In many organisations, communities of practice have become an integral part of the structure of an organisation.
Communication experts from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and eight West African countries have formed a Community of Practice (CoP) to discuss agri-tech related issues, share their challenges and learn from each other.
CORAF Trains CSIR and Eight West African Countries' Communication Experts on Best Practices
June 07, 2021
- We live in a noisy world where people are inundated with information 24/7. If you want to make sure your audience hear what you have to say, and take the actions you’re hoping for, you must be strategic in your communication.
- MITA is to promote the discovery of improved technologies and to facilitate exchanges and purchase-sale transactions between promoters and users of improved technologies.
- Actionable communication is about inspiring others to take an action either on your or someone else’s behalf
The Crops Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has honoured former UN Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan, posthumously for contributing towards research into new varieties of sweet potatoes by naming one after him.
The late Mr. Annan, a commercial potato farmer himself, founded the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to support institutions with funding to improve on the production of the crop.
Through his efforts and support, the institute, between 2017 to now, has come out with about seven new varieties, one of which has been named "Kofi Annan."
The AGRA is an organisation dealing with agricultural products in Africa.
Broadly, it deals with improving agric products and supporting local farm owners and labour.
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Soil Research Institute (SRI) converts all its analogue soil maps of Ghana from analogue formats to a digitized platform to support the development of a Digital Agricultural Innovation Hub (DAIH). This is to help accelerate agricultural innovation and facilitate access to agricultural technologies. The soil maps in Ghana can now be accessed on https://csirsoilinfo.org/.
The “Digitized Soil Maps” platform developed by The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Soil Research Institute (CSIR-SRI) in collaboration with the Modernising Agriculture in Ghana (MAG) project has been unveiled at a workshop in Accra.
Addressing participants at the workshop, Professor Paul Bosu, the Deputy Director-General, said: “adequate knowledge and soil type information is crucial for sustainable agriculture and let me quickly add that it is not only about agriculture but also a myriad of other uses which time would not permit me to go into”.
The Soil Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has completed an exhaustive process of digitising the entire soil map of Ghana.
The process involved converting the soil maps of Ghana from analogue to digital formats and making this digital information available online.
The analogue soil maps were easily exposed to damage and were not easily accessible by key stakeholders spread far and wide in Ghana and across the globe.
The conversion of the analogue maps to the digital form is, therefore, expected to assist stakeholders, especially, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), to build a more modern agricultural system for the country.
The web-based platform that has all the digitised soil map is www.csirsoilinfo.org.
CSIR appeals to gov’t of Korea to support KOPIA Ghana Centre to achieve its objectives
March 29, 2021
The Director-General of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Professor Victor Agyeman, has requested the government of Korea through Mr. Lim Jung Taek, the Korean Ambassador to establish a long term collaboration to support the activities of one of its partners, the Korean Programme on International Agriculture (KOPIA) Ghana Centre. The KOPIA Ghana Centre has been set up to develop locally-adaptable technologies and seeds by sharing knowledge and experience as well as disseminate the technologies and practices to farmers in the rural areas. Professor Agyeman made the request when the Korean Ambassador paid a courtesy call on him in his office at the CSIR Head Office. Furthermore, the Director-General said the Council had exchanged mutual benefits from KOPIA Ghana Centre especially in terms of training local farmers on best farming practices, and as a beneficial, the Council also supported the centre with land for its farming activities.
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR ) with support from the Canadian government through the Modernising Agriculture in Ghana (MAG) programme held a capacity building workshop for the media under the ‘ CSIR knowledge series’ programme at its Head Office in Accra.
The overall objective of the ‘CSIR knowledge series ‘ programme is to build the capacity of the media to become better advocates of science and research as part of efforts to rebrand the Council and enhance its visibility. One of the outputs of the training is to constitute and nurture press corps to champion the dissemination of CSIR’s strength in science, technology and agricultural research.
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‘Venture into agric, science and technology reporting with CSIR’- Napoleon Ato Kittoe urges journalists
March 17, 2021
Seasoned journalist, Napoleon Ato Kittoe who has done over seventy exclusive news reports on the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) the past two years, has urged media practitioners to shift their focus to agriculture, science and technology reporting as it has tremendous potential.
He made this appeal when he took his turn to share some methodologies by which science inclined journalists may report accurately, with the possibility of their works becoming veritable reference materials for academic research at the maiden edition of the capacity building workshop under the ‘ CSIR knowledge series programme ‘.
Pilot Project on Waste Power Generation Begins in Ashanti Region
February 25, 2021
A research project on the use of waste to produce electricity in host communities for their own use is being implemented in Ghana.
The four-year project (2020-2023) known as the ‘Hybrid Waste-to-Energy (W2E) Pilot Project in the Ashanti Region,’ is being funded by the German government with an amount of €5.8 million.
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation (MESTI), Ghana, through the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) in Accra, conducted feasibility studies on renewable energy sources in Ghana under the supervision of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Farmers Schooled on Effective AMG Fertilizer Application
February 09, 2021
Two hundred farmers, retailers, distributors and scientists from six districts and a municipality in the Upper East Region have completed a fertilizer application training and evaluation exercise organized by the Agriculture Manufacturing Group, (AMG Ltd).
The training and evaluation exercise sought to teach them how to use the AMG fertilizers appropriately to guarantee maximum field benefit and also to demonstrate to independent observers the efficacy of AMG Fertilizers.
The participants were made of 180 farmers, six district/municipal directors of agriculture, 14 agricultural extension agencies and field staff of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI).
CCST MATRICULATES 24 POST GRADUATE STUDENTS
February 04, 2021
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), College of Science and Technology (CCST) has matriculated twenty-four students pursuing various post-graduate degree programs at the college for the 2020/2021 academic year.
The ceremony took place on Friday 15th January 2021. At the CSIR Food Research Institute (CSIR-FRI).
During the ceremony, the staff of the college including lecturers, heads of departments, and the leadership of the Student Representative Council (SRC) took turns to welcome the students and the various programs were introduced to the students and what it takes to pass these programs of study.
Professor Mark Appiah, the President of the college who gave an overview of the institution, said CCST was established in 2012 and governed by a twelve-member governing board.
He reiterated that, the college which is affiliated to the University of Cape Coast (UCC), offers Master’s degree level programs including Master of Science and Master of Philosophy (MSc/MPhil) in Climate Change and Integrated Natural Resources Management, and, Natural Sciences and Environmental Management. The institution also offers MPhil in Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Food Science and Technology, Fisheries, Soil Health and Environmental Resources Management, Industrial Animal Nutrition and Feed Technology.
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