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Nov 19, 2015
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Krysta Harden (center) tours Ghana’s largest feed mill with U.S. soybean grower leaders and Akate Feed Mill manager. The group examines bags of U.S. soybean meal used at the facility.
U.S. soybean grower leaders spent this week in Ghana learning about trade relationships and the local poultry sector.
American Soybean Association (ASA) Director, Bill Wykes (IL), Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council Chairman David Lueck and Illinois Soybean Association Chairman Daryl Cates participated in the Agribusiness Trade Mission in Accra, Ghana hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The trade contacts met with representatives from six African countries and traveled with the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Krysta Harden to the Kumasi region to visit agribusinesses including a feedmill tour. While in Kumasi, the delegation met with representatives from national and regional poultry producers associations. They discussed the launch of the USDA Food for Progress Initiative to help enhance the value chain in Ghana’s poultry farming industry.
USDA recently signed a contract with ASA’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH) program for $15 million over 5 years to strengthen the feed and poultry sectors in Ghana the program: AMPLIFIES Ghana, among other objectives. Wykes and Cates also serve on the WISHH Committee.
