In January 2016, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and I WAD Ghana Limited, the private agricultural and irrigation development company, signed a Cooperative Agreement under which the two organisations will co-fund the Power Innovations in Commercial Agriculture (PICA) project. The goal of PICA is to enhance net incomes of the irrigated nucleus farm and 300 out-growers in the Sisili-Kulpawn basin through the provision of efficient alternative power systems. Three specific objectives will be pursued to achieve this goal:
• Build infrastructure for a solar hybrid power generation system.
• Secure the provision of low cost power for irrigated farming.
• Improve productivity of smallholder out growers through application of smaller solar irrigation initiatives.
It is expected that with the generation of about 0.8MW of solar energy both IWAD’s nucleus estate and its smallholder outgrowers will have access to clean energy that significantly improves their net incomes through power cost savings up to 50%. The transfer of knowledge on modern irrigation and renewable energy is expected to enhance efficiency in energy and water use for commercial agriculture among local farmers.
The project location is Yagaba, in the Mamprugu-Moaduri district of the Northern Region of Ghana
In January 2016, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and I WAD Ghana Limited, the private agricultural and irrigation development company, signed a Cooperative Agreement under which the two organisations will co-fund the Power Innovations in Commercial Agriculture (PICA) project. The goal of PICA is to enhance net incomes of the irrigated nucleus […]
USAID/PICA Project launched in Yagaba with PICA Week Read More »
Over the period IWAD has received persons from strategic partners including SADA to assess the project’s activities. Mr. Jan Van Saane of the National Entrepreneurial Netherlands (RVO.nl) a monitoring partner visited to assess the progress of the project and to meet farmers of the small holder association under the rain fed system otherwise known as
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On 23rd January, 2017, a project officer of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in the person of Jildaz Evin visited IWAD’s project site in Yagaba to see what is on ground. Meanwhile, AFD’s main strategy is focused on financing public corporations (non-sovereign loans) and the private sector. Hence, AFD is more concentrated in activities
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The fourth edition of the Northern Ghana Investment Conference will be held in the Upper East Regional capital, Bolgatanga. As a revolving event, it is scheduled for June 15th, 2015 at the forecourt of the Ghana Health Service Training Centre, Bolgatanga. 2014 Northern Ghana Investment Conference set Third Northern Ghana Business Investment Conference successful The
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The Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP) has just concluded its first call for matching grant assistance. A total of USD 9.5 million was awarded to some 31 agribusinesses operating within the project’s zones of influence within the Accra Plains and the SADA Zone “Grants were awarded to help spur the growth of these agribusinesses, by
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