The Organisation for indigenous Initiative and Sustainability Ghana (ORGIIS-GHANA) in the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region has become a learning centre in the areas of indigenous nursery seedlings and plantation in Ghana and in the Sub West Africa countries.
The Environmental NGO which is into Natural Resources Management, Community and Enterprise, is a local non-profit non-governmental organisation (NGO) which operates in the Upper East, Northern and Upper West regions.
The NGO as part of its implementation activities, had established indigenous seedlings and plantation centre at the Pindaa community in the Kassena-Nankana District in the Upper East Region , christened “the Sahel Innovation Centre at the Pindaa “
For instance, the NGO in this year nursed 7,310 varieties of indigenous seedlings ranging from Boabab, Cashew and Mahogany and distributed about 5,000 of the seedlings to communities particularly women groups in its catchment area to grow.
These came to light when members of the Ghana Federation of Forest and Farm Producers (GhaFFaP) drawn from the Savanna , Upper East and Upper West Region visited the centre on Saturday, as part of field visit to learn from the good practices in natural resource management and to replicate lessons acquired in their respective communities.
The Programme Manager of ORGIIS-Ghana, Mr Clifford Amoah Adagenara, who conducted the GhaFFaP members around the centre, educated the members on how his outfit managed to establish the indigenous nursery seedlings centre.
The Programme Manager who also took them to the weather forecast site indicated that one could be in the office while reading the weather forecast in the phone or through the internet, and relaying the information to farmers.
Mr Adagenara told the team that the farm managers at the centre had been able to water the nursery seedling through the mechanised water on the farm, also made to apply organic manure on the farm.
He told the team members, who were amazed to see the rapid growth nature of varieties of indigenous crops such as plantain, shea tree, Baoba tree, Moringa, corn, that rapid growth nature of the crop was attributed to broadcast of the farm with spoiled baobab seedlings.
The Team Members commended ORGIIS-Ghana for such a novelty and pledged to implement the good practices, and lessons in their respective communities to help conserve and preserve natural resources.
FROM SAMUEL AKAPULE, PINDAA
