FARMTASTIC - Making Agriculture Attractive
Meet the Farm's Team
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
A team is only as strong as their weakest link. That's why Farmtastic works with the best.
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The Farmmanager
A Ghanaian by birth, Deborah is mother of one and comes originally from Nandom. With her father being a retired miner and her mother working as a trader she grew up humble but in a family that encourages their daughters to get the same education as their sons. After school Deborah worked for some years to finance her studies and ended up with a degree in General Agriculture from Wenchie College in 2022.
She went on to gain practical knowledge as a farm manager in the Poultry business learning the hands-on parts as well as the administrative work on a farm. Deborah experienced the educational, vocational and employment situation in Ghana for women first hand and is now motivated to improve the circumstances for women after her.
Deborah is a very driven person that wants to help empower other women through agriculture and joins Farmtastic to supervise the farm in Juaben as well as take care of customer relations and sales.
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The Forewoman
Being a traditionalist in her community, Okomfo Serwaa is looking forward to taking over the position as a forewoman at the farm in Juaben.
As one of those women who could not receive the education she would have loved to due to financial restrictions, she wants to improve the chances for her own daughters, peers and sisters by supporting the Farmtastic project.
Okomfo is experienced in small scale agriculture herself and very well connected in Juaben’s community. This enables her to recrute and train women for the project and oversee their activities as well as monitor where there is room for improvement.
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Meet Our Outgrowers
Named outgrowers, the second leg of the Farmtastic project is based on those who own land but lack the means to build, grow or produce on it in any kind of way. Landowners are supplied with a microcredit in form of a certain number of chicks and the matching vaccinations and amounts of feed. Their job is to grow the broilers to maturity and either sell themselves and pay back the credit, or else Farmtastic buys the birds back and markets them, returning the profits to the outgrower. This provides a greater market access, especially for women living in rural areas. Farmtastic’s outgrowers will be educated in poultry production and basic management and trained repeatedly as long as they are part of the project.
Rukaya
Rukaya is a mother of 4 from Tamale. She went to Kwame Nkrumah University in Kumasi to get a Masters Degree in Planning Monitoring and Evaluation and succeeded while she was building a SME Business with layer chicken. As she is well aware of the hardships a mother experiences between taking care of her kids and the household, working and getting education at the same time she is happy to receive a microcredit from Farmtastic to get her broiler business started
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