OCEP Ghana :: Agricultural projects in Africa

Agricultural projects

As in most of Africa, Ghana is also a country where more then half the population gets its livelihood from farming. Often primitive methods are used to farm the land and rear the animals. OCEP has a number of projects in agriculture.

Assin North S.S.S. forestry project

Description
OCEP has established an agro-forestry project with Assin North secondary school, consisting of five acres. The fields contain mainly cash crops such as maize, cassava, plantain and cowpea. Furthermore, animal husbandry is about to be introduced; the theoretical aspects are already being taught at the school. The school has moreover some 30 acres of unused land due to lack of manpower.

Time of year
Anytime

Place
Assin North district, Central Region

Rural/urban
Rural

Max number of volunteers
6 (together with the Assin North school SSS)

Volunteer job description
1) Nursing seeds and saplings
2) Weed control
3) Line and pegging (demarcation of the plant base for planting)
4) Pruning (=removal of unwanted branches)

Depending on the volunteer’s preferences, he can choose to combine teaching and practice of the Agric Science subject or focus on practice only. The subjects taught under Agric Science are (1) general agriculture, (2) crops and horticulture, (3) animal science and (4) physics/chemistry.

Requirements for volunteers
Preferably strong interest, experience, studies or degree relating to agriculture.

Accommodation description
Volunteers will have their own room close to their work. There is electricity, but no running water. The water is supplied from boreholes.

Accommodation cost
50 EUR a month

Meals
If the volunteers wish they can get 3 meals a day from the school canteen, which depending on what and how much they eat, would cost them between 2 and 4 EUR a day.

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