Ghana: MoFA trains women fish processors

Published Aug 23, 2022

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The Department of Agriculture in Ghana's Western Region is conducting training for women fish processors to enhance their post-harvest handling and processing skills, focusing on catfish. The training includes market strategies and value addition techniques, with the aim to increase income, improve living standards, and reduce wastage. The department is encouraging more people to engage in catfish farming and processing, and is developing innovations to address the scarcity of fish products during marine fisher closed seasons. So far, 35 people have participated in the initiative, with plans to enroll more.

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Abenbebom — The Department of Agriculture of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) in the Effia-Kwesimintsim Municipality of the Western Region has begun training of women fish processors to link catfish farmers and catfish processors along the value chain, especially fish smokers. This is part of the department's efforts to improve post-harvest handling and processing skills for women fish processors along the catfish value chain in the area. The first batch of 15 participants were schooled on market strategies including smoking, selling, packaging in transparent boxes and good labelling. The Municipal Director of Agriculture, John K. Gyimah, told the Ghanaian Times last Friday that the training was to increase the knowledge of participants on catfish processing and also to create market linkages. This, he added, would promote value addition and also increase overall income after sales, reduce dust contamination and flies, and that innovations would ultimately improve ...

Source: All Africa