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Aug 16, 2018
Professors Carlos Campadanal, Kansas State University, and Sam Cook, Iowa State University, visit Joseph Asamoa and son of Asamoa Farms, Kumasi, Ghana. Asamoa Farms has been upgrading their slaughter plant in order to qualify as supplier of poultry meat to KFC outlets in Ghana. The Asamoas are interested in the improved quality and reliable supply chain that U.S. soybeans can offer for their feed production line which includes an extruder from Insta-Pro International.
The American Soybean Association’s (ASA) World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH) recently headed to Ghana and met with U.S. land grant universities and feed specialists on the AMPLIFIES poultry project.
Erica Morrow, WISHH project director, Ligaya Diaz, chief of party and James Bernhardt, monitoring and evaluation officer, led ASA’s WISHH program AMPLIFIES Ghana project stakeholders and implementers in a week of meetings and technical visits.
Contractors from Kansas State, Iowa State, Oklahoma State and Universities of Kentucky and Ghana met with feed millers, poultry growers and other players in the Ghanaian broiler and layer industry. This U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food for Progress funded project is increasing the efficiencies of the feed value chain, combining both local sources and international trade.
WISHH Executive Director Jim Hershey also participated and met with several of the importers which are taking delivery of 10,000 MT of U.S. soybean meal and, in a separate trade, 6,000 MT of U.S. soybeans, all coming later this month.
The Ghanaian market has been short of soy protein for several months and likely will absorb these products quickly.
