The project, which aims to empower farmers to produce vegetables without necessarily demanding for land is being implemented by the School of Agriculture with the Department of Crop Science at the University of Ghana with funding support from the Skills Development Fund (SDF), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO).
Explaining the method, Dr Eric Cornelius, Senior Lecturer with the Department of Crop Science, University of Ghana stated that in preparing the media or substrate, one could choose to mix the sawdust, rice husk and cow dung or poultry litter together under shade and water and compost for 12 weeks.
On the other hand, one could mix cocopeat and cow dung or poultry manure with water together which does not require any time to be ready for use.
Explaining further the processes, Dr Cornelius said one could “fill substrates into nursery boxes which could be wooden boxes, buckets, plastic planting trough, plastic bags among others and water and plant seeds directly or transplant seedlings into them.”
The Senior Lecturer who urged the groups to adopt the innovation indicated that the method was less expensive to practice because it was not labour intensive and did not require big land space to practice in large quantity.