Iribov has had a output emplacement in Ghana for a act of years . The location is used for the propagation of tissue culture . Most of the yield will go back to the Netherlands for the client mesh in Europe , but during the last three years the ship’s company explicitly also started to focus on the local market in West Africa . In addition to speedy propagation , one of the main reasons for using tissue finish is the product of disease - free and vigorous starting textile and there is sure enough a market for that . Kees Veldhuijzen , who has been trust to further develop the business organization there and is spend a large part of his clock time is Ghana , talks about the project .
“ The agency of work here is very unlike and you have to lot with a very different market mechanics . The dirt in West Africa is fertile , there are very many and in the main modest farmers , and they produce a lot of different crop . There is a lot of value creation , but little cash menses to invest in , among other thing , good starting stuff . Moreover , agriculture is still done in the traditional means . The James Leonard Farmer arranges his own starting material and much of the yield is intended for his home and the local market . Farmers must be convinced that there is an reward in using high - quality planting cloth . If we come through in creating this cognizance , we can really make an impact . "
AwarenessTo convince that potential customer , the local so - squall ‘ low bearer farmer ’ of the obvious need for healthy plant life cloth and to get a beachhead in the securities industry , is not at all that easy . “ We have chosen to come in into collaborationism in project . reckon , for deterrent example , an NGO that is dedicate to supply water and food or a government or other outside insane asylum that is committed to this . We can be an concerned political party in such labor . ”A good example is a projection with ginger . The German GIZ , a sectionalization of the German Ministry of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation , ordered from Iribov 100,000 vernal ginger plants , propagated with tissue culture , for local farmers in the Kadjebi part . The GIZ paid for the plant , Iribov have tutelage of the production and obstetrical delivery and another Dutch fellowship that is committed to healthy intellectual nourishment production and bonny gross sales guarantee that at a former date it will buy the ginger from the Farmer .
Then there is the cashew projection in collaboration with ComCashew . Just as with gingerroot , GIZ is also involved in financing , but execution is much more in the custody of Iribov . The company get and distributes cashew trees , provides training for farmers and get up them in a cooperative , so that also the sale of the last product is organise in good order . A third example is a projection that is still in homework with the Dutch government in which a seed material is being developed for Yam , comparable to the potato organization in the Netherlands . Yam is also a antecedent vegetable and one of the most important things on the menu of the West African universe . The yield of this craw is under great pressure as a result of virus diseases and healthy starting material can greatly improve the harvest home for the farmers .
There are even more projects with pineapple , mango tree and love fruit , with other root vegetable such as sweet tater and cassava , and also with crop for forestry such as teak and bamboo . " The point is that the grandness of computer virus - free and unattackable start material there in the tropical zone is in many cases even more relevant than with us , " according to Kees . “ In many crop , there are diseases that are maintain in the current place or that get worsened with clip . We want to show that with good plant material these job can be tackled . Of of course , at long last we desire that Ghanaian farmers themselves become convinced of the grandness and see that warrants an investment at the start of the spring up time of year . ”
Closed circleFinally , the doubtfulness of why we do it , is licit . Iribov understands training and propagation and the focus is mainly on multiplication in floriculture . In Ghana it mainly relate tropical agricultural crops and the type of client and mart requires a completely dissimilar approach .
" It ’s a combination of things , " Kees concludes , " one matter direct to the other . The construction in Ghana was included in the acquirement of SBW in 2011 and was then and also now used for propagation for European client in a part of the world where labor price are lower . The great thing is that the research lab was set up in 2005 to propagate pineapple plant in a project that was financially supported by the World Bank . That project was successful , but afterwards the company was sold . Now we are back where it started and the company is again used for inquiry and propagation of tropical fruit and vegetable crops . We are set up a commercial-grade company here in Ghana , but we are proud of that we are also in a position to contribute to the ontogenesis of local USDA in West Africa . "
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