55 year-old Solomon Kojo Kusi from Jomoro District of the Western Region wins the 2020 National Best Farmer Award. He is a secondary school leaver with 10 years of farming experience.
He was handed the sword of authority as the ‘King of Farmers’ and a cheque of GHc 570,000.
First runner up award was Nana Kofi Drobo IV from Wenchi in the Bono Region and second runner up award was taken by Mahmood Mohammed Awal form Zabzugu in the Northern Region.
Solomon Kojo Kusi has huge farms in the various locations in Western Region including Kwesikrom, Nanakrom. He employs 222 workers. He grows roots and tubers, vegetables, plantation crops, mushrooms and timber species.
He also rears livestock such as cattle, sheep, goats, layers, pigs, rabbits and grass cutters among others. He also has 82 boxes of beehives with bee colonies, 10 fishponds stocked with tilapia, and catfish.
Solomon Kojo Kusi is known to have a good knowledge of crop husbandry and employs organic and inorganic methods of fertilization.
Among other things, the judges scored Solomon Kusi high for good sanitation on his farms.
He applies good farming technologies on his farm lands and has contributed massively to Ghana’s agricultural sector.
He also won the District Best Fish Farmer Award in 2018.
Poor road network, poor markets and access to credit are some problems he faces.
Source: Fauzeeya Jamal-deen
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