CSIR-SARI encourages farmers in Northern Ghana to embrace newly developed climate-smart, high-yielding cowpea variety

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research -Savannah Agricultural Research Institute CSIR-SARI) has encouraged farmers, particularly those in Northern Ghana, to embrace its newly developed climate-smart and high-yielding Cowpea variety to help maximize profit and increase production, among others. “I will encourage farmers in the Savannah Region and Northern Ghana and Ghana at large to go in for this variety. The variety has several production potentials, and it will be made available for cultivation by a large group of farmers in the 2025/26 farming season”, Dr Theophilus Tengey, Cowpea Breeder, indicated. In an interview with Myjoyonline, the Research Scientist said the variety comes with high nutritional values including its natural ingredients of protein. He said the variety also has an additional value of high iron and zinc content, which is recommended for pregnant women and children. He explained that the tender green leaves of the cowpea make it suitable for soup ...