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LATEST NEWS
26.05.2006
Ghana to Use EurepGAP to Further Integrate Smallholders into Pineapple Supply Chain
in Fruit and Vegetables
Wednesday 24th May EurepGAP Chairman Nigel Garbutt attended the launch
in Accra of a major mulitstakeholder project aimed at integrating small
scale farmers into the global supply chain.
Minister of Agriculture the Hon. E. Debra welcomed EurepGAP’s assistance at the start of the Option 2 Group Certification programme aimed at coordinating additional numbers of small scale producers into groups which can act more competitively to access major international markets
This work coincides with the Ghana pineapples industry’s drive to convert more area to the MD2 cultivar.
The project is part of the USAID TIPCEE programme and other partners include the Horticultural Export Initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture and GTZ the German Technical Cooperation organisation.
Nigel Garbutt said “EurepGAP recognises the important role small scale farmers play in the supply of high quality pineapples from Ghana and we will be assisting in everyway possible to help the programme achieve its aims to certify more small scale farmers in groups”
See pictures of Launch Event with the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Ghana and with Nigel Garbutt, Chairman EurepGAP.
Minister of Agriculture the Hon. E. Debra welcomed EurepGAP’s assistance at the start of the Option 2 Group Certification programme aimed at coordinating additional numbers of small scale producers into groups which can act more competitively to access major international markets
This work coincides with the Ghana pineapples industry’s drive to convert more area to the MD2 cultivar.
The project is part of the USAID TIPCEE programme and other partners include the Horticultural Export Initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture and GTZ the German Technical Cooperation organisation.
Nigel Garbutt said “EurepGAP recognises the important role small scale farmers play in the supply of high quality pineapples from Ghana and we will be assisting in everyway possible to help the programme achieve its aims to certify more small scale farmers in groups”
See pictures of Launch Event with the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Ghana and with Nigel Garbutt, Chairman EurepGAP.
