The European Union funded Cassava Transformation Project (CASTRAP) has trained 24 entrepreneurial but underprivileged youths in the South-eastern counties of Grand Gedeh and Sinoe in baking and pastry-making using cassava and wheat flour. They have successfully established and are currently…
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Recognizing the challenges faced by local food production is a crucial first step in dealing with the intricate problem of post-production losses affecting both smallholder farmers and farmer cooperatives throughout Ghana. Undoubtedly, one of the key solutions for addressing these…
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Every year on August 12th, International Youth Day is observed, an initiative that honours the virtues of young individuals and acknowledges the obstacles that the youth of today may encounter. This year, the theme for International Youth Day is “Green…
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In the vast expanse of lush greenery within the Abonse community located in the Eastern Region, our Mango-Pine project team engaged in a heartfelt conversation with Elder Ansah, a highly experienced mango farmer residing in the community. With a 16-acre…
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Fresh cassava has a short shelf life of fewer than three days. As a result, processing is essential for producing value-added products. However, the lack of processing knowledge among processors has created several constraints in the processing of cassava products.…
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The project baseline observed that harvesting was considered one of the most difficult activities in cassava cultivation especially for women who dominate the production of the crop in the South East. Most respondents in that study indicated that this activity…
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CASTRAP has distributed over 313,375 improved cassava cuttings to 445 beneficiaries across the project landscape. This comes at the back of the CASTRAP baseline survey that identified access to improved and healthy cassava materials as a major challenge to effective…
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CASTRAP conducted an action audit for six (6) of the twenty-seven (27) groups that had completed their cycles in the project landscape. As per the accepted VSLA principle, a full-cycle action audit is performed six to twelve months following savings,…
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CASTRAP has commissioned the Panama Women for Future Association’s newly constructed mini-processing center in Sinoe County. This activity is part of the project’s objective of strengthening the efficiency of main actors in the cassava value chain to improve inputs and…
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The Cooperation Officer of the European Union to Liberia, Ms. Geetrui Louwagie (PhD), engaged in an interesting interaction with Lydia’s Field Enterprise during a recent project site visit in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County. Lydia’s Field Enterprise is a privately owned…
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