No-till Promotion Among Smallholder Farmers - My Experience
Kofi started his career as a cocoa agronomist and later worked as an on-farm research scientist for the Crops Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Ghana. He worked on the Ghana Grains Development Project, which gave him the opportunity to do more no-till research and extension. He left CRI in 2003 to become completely independent to push for what he believes in – no-till farming.
Meeting Howard Buffett in 2007 gave Kofi encouragement and support to push on. In 2012, Kofi established the Center for No-Till Agriculture at Amanchia in Ghana’s Ashanti region to permanently illustrate the evidence and benefits of no-till farming and to teach other farmers the processes of no-till farming. In 2013, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation uplifted the center, which now the center attracts people from all over Africa.
Kofi sees public interest growing in no-till farming in West Africa, especially in Ghana. He is committed to continue showing the evidence and benefits to help build farmers’ interest and confidence in the technology for massive adoption.