Report on feed formulation training in northern Ghana, April 2015

2015

English

Three training workshops were organized from 15 to 25 April, 2015 for farmers in 3 Africa RISING intervention communities in northern Ghana. The trainings which were organized under the feed and health intervention project were aimed at building the capacities of farmers on feed formulation towards improved small ruminant feeding. They were held in Gia (Upper East Region), Tibali (Northern Region) and Guo (Upper West Region) on 15, 21 and 25 April respectively (Table 1). The trainings also had the secondary of objective of decentralizing feed formulation activities by the feed supplementation and health intervention project to the community level in order to ensure farmers pick up useful skills that will ensure sustainability of feed formulation within the communities.

Salifu, S.