Benedict Bernabe University of Melbourne benedict.bernabe@gmail.com
Daniel Buchalter University of Melbourne dbuch87@gmail.com
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SOYBEAN CULTIVATION MICROENTERPRISE STRATEGY FOR FOR DEVELOPMENT RURAL GHANA
MICROENTERPRISE STRATEGY
SOYBEAN CULTIVATION FOR DEVELOPMENT FOR RURAL GHANA
Summary With the predominant goals of creating an enabling environment for microfinance, providing livelihood to community members and improving nutrition, we propose a project to train farmers on soybean cultivation in Okushibri, Appolonia and Kpoiete, Greater Accra, Ghana. At the end of the project, community farmers will have the ability to mix-‐crop soybeans with tomatoes allowing the future consumption or sale of soybean and soy by-‐products.
Enabling environment for microfinance created, livelihood provided and nutriSon improved Farm profitability increased and farmers' loan repayment rate improved Farmers trained in soybean culSvaSon
Community trained in soy by-‐ products development
Community's access to nutriSous food improved Households educated in benefits and uses of soy
Resources and Skills Needed The project capitalises on the community’s existing assets (land capital and human capital) and skills (farming, developing farm by-‐products and selling farm produce). Resources Farmland, farm labour, soybean expert, soybean seeds, farming equipment Skills
Soybean cultivation, Post-‐harvest storage, marketing skills, training skills
Project Outline Identify training materials and resources
Conduct training of farmers
• Identify existing training materials and resource persons on soybean cultivation within Ghana. • Identify costs related to training materials and transportation of resource persons if needed. • Source funding for training of local farmers.
• Identify potential farmers for soy cultivation program. • Finalize logistical processes • Conduct training and gather feedback
Conduct post-‐ harvest analysis of model farm
Create model farm for trial cultivation
• Organize farmers into soybean farming communities • Through microfinance loans, secure funding for model farm • Begin the cultivation of soybean
• Generate feedback from participant farmers • Analyse yield for market viability • Make recommendations for replication in following season
Soybean Cultivation for Development by Benedict Bernabe & Daniel Buchalter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-‐ NonCommercial-‐ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.