Ancestral Technology Rice Farming

1.The solution is to address the problems of environmental situation in the farming communities to improve food production by ensuring Ancestral Technology environmental sustainability system  through biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation education for reducing deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. 2. The proposed solution are environmental sustainable education and smallholder farmers rice production marketing value chain investment. 3. The sustainable impact of food through the project scaling, replication and outreach to various global communities will reduce global vulnerability, eradicate poverty and hunger, improve women and disable economic viability and well-being, jobs will be created for women and youths and develop women economically as well as successful entrepreneurs, improve sustainable impact of food security and agribusiness industrial infrastructures and economic business investment in the global communities through milled rice national and global marketing effective distribution demand supply system to our customers and consumers.

The specific problem is environmental destruction by community people;  The Partnership feasibility study and research work shows that the Climate system  is a problem for sustainable food development; the factors are lack of biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and routine deforestation, land degradation, desertification and greenhouse gas emissions as well as water bodies chemicals pollution that scaled across Northern Region Districts communities and neighboring African countries and 1,500,000 people and farmers are affected. The partnership will conduct effective environmental sustainability education for community environmental management committees for continue giving capacity training education for community people and farmers to engage in food production, biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, environmental protection and management.

The solutions are environmental sustainability and rice production; We first ensure environmental sustainability before we clear the farm lands for tractor services; we then  create bounds around farm lands for conservation of water to prevent water, fertilizers and Soil nutrients from run off; we start planting rice by sowing using rob for creating street lines on the farm land by using ancestral  technology conservation system. We plough and harrow the  lands before sowing, the fertilizers are also apply by sowing. The farms activities are monitored by partnership project coordinator and monitoring staffs working with 50 out-growers in the various farms with support of technical partners. The partnership supports the out-growers production technology training, input supply and micro-financing for production paddy rice and ensures routine supply to the Partnership Enterprise industry for processing and marketing. The production capacity will Increase funding investment for improvement of partnership Enterprise’s agribusiness related infrastructures, farmers income, human resources development for improving food security and hunger reduction. The project is projected to sustained and impact food sustainable system in the northern region’s rural and urban farming communities for improving agribusiness economic, poverty and hunger reduction to meet the SDG target.

The solution serve smallholder farmers including women, disables, youths, vulnerable and customers in the society for Improving direct food product chain marketing arrangements between producers, exporters and customers on the one hand and partnership enterprise on the other hand with the aim of building long-term market partnerships that will attract investors and economic growth. We engage them for participating in the project actions to work and Explore new sourcing and retail business models for alternative market outlets, develops innovative scientific technology and cost-effective production, processing and food storage systems for marketing and consumption.  Increase partner farmers’ productivity and income from crops production to improve food security, economic impact and well-being.  Supports healthy and quality food crops production, taking into account sustainable environment and food safety standards.  Supports the certification of crops produce under a label that represents Good Agricultural Practices for enhancing food products marketing value chain investment.  Explores direct (new) dedicated (high-end) export channels for high-quality and healthy food crops from Ghana. Develops farm extension and training activities (service provision) for  ensuring scientific technology modern farming practices. The farmers and the customers met and deliberated the solution success before writing this proposal.

The solution aligned the challenges of climate change and lands destruction that affect target  population of1,500,000 smallholder farmers rice cultivation activities. Community people and farmers will be empowered with environmental biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation education for them to take in charge of environmental services, such as sequestering carbon conservation, managing watersheds, climate agriculture adaptation, preserving biodiversity,improve fertile land and water resources for increasing sustainable food production;The challenge affecting our agricultural sector activities would be solved through technology development Transfer to the farmers, the technology development systems that will develop and adapt to increase farming groups production.

Among Agribusiness firms who are competing with the partnership Enterprise are; Avanash Rice Company, Gundaa Produce Company and Junny Agro Limited who are providing similar products. What makes our solution different from these competitors is the partnership transformation of  production by using  Bio-mimicry and ancestral Technology for enhancing the resilience of the natural environment in the farming communities, and thus adapt to climate change weather conditions and develop policies and new ways for expanding rice farming systems to include standard innovative industrial scientific modern processing industry with installation of processing plant equipment  for quality processing to improve marketing value chain investment and attractive to our  Regional Africa market customers and consumers; The partnership adoption of environment sustainability and technologies  rice plantation and marketing chain systems that overcome challenges and dynamic issue and improved effective delivery of  extension services for quality rice production and improved partnership’s agribusiness and policy that employed a wide range of evolving technologies and farm practices across many different farming systems and structures to meet rice products demands from our customers and consumers, both from national and international markets outlets.  Biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation production technology makes partnership food products unique for overcoming our current competitors.

The core technology that power the partnership solution is Biological conservation technology through using Bio-mimicry and ancestral Technology for enhancing the resilience of the natural environment in the farming communities, and thus adapt to historical weather conditions and to develop policies and new innovations of rice production that solve production challenges and ensure sustainably food security. these Bio-mimicry and ancestral technology is apply through climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation such as soil nutrients, water, nitrogen and ecosystem for increasing the partnership food production both rain fed and irrigation. High temperature affects rice growth, to prevent such occurrences we ensure breeding and using ancestral system technology to improve high temperature tolerance of rice that help  to mitigate the negative effects of high temperature. We also adopt sowing, water and nutrient management to mitigate the effects of high temperature on rice performance through crop rotation and irrigation.

Bio-mimicry and ancestral Biological conservation technology system is widely practiced in most of  Ghana farming communities resulting increasing productivity in most of the District farming communities. The Karaga District farming communities practices Bio-mimicry and ancestral Biodiversity conservation technology innovation in food production especial rice production, they engage in biodiversity conservation by participating in tree plantation on degraded lands, reducing greenhouse gas emissions,  avoiding aggro-chemicals and fertilizers run off  through climate change adaptation,biodiversity conservation and environmental management that contributed and increased rice production and economic growth in the Karaga District farming communities.This technology has also practiced through piloting at Kuala and Gbrimah rice farming communities in the Northern region  of Ghana, all environmental farm lands and water  bodies were biological conserved and farmers continued adapting climate change rice production system resulting  increased in production and sustainable food security and well-being in the two communities.

The partnership project activities data analysis indicated that the farmers adopted Bio-mimicry and ancestral Technology farming, increased sustainable food production, improved food security, hunger reduction and well-being for all people while continue engaging in biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and environmental fertile land maintenance for agriculture crops production that  sustained in line with  SDG Target; The partner enterprise has developed a research strategy and improved policies and governance mechanisms to address sustainable production by reducing hazardous of climate change and environmental degradation in agriculture and forestry sectors; The organization has improved implementation of policies and international instruments for sustainable agriculture food products marketing and income and improved livelihood in the urban and rural communities. The project growth in production has increased the supply chain, access to food, and consumption of rice products and increased financial performance, and the efficiency of water and land use among rural and urban poor households through the adoption of environmental sustainable systems; The strategy action to meet the SDG target is succeeding and ensuring the rice project delivery  targeting both commercial and small household for optimal impact, and also ensuring investments focuses on  increasing the capacity for the management of the brooding population and  innovative production technology, which is  sustaining  food security system in the long term.

Currently; 1500

In one year; 2000

In five years time; 20,000

•  To use Bio mimicry and ancestral Technology for enhancing the resilience of the natural environment in the farming communities, and thus adapt to historical climate weather conditions and to develop policies and new ways of rice production that solve production challenges and ensure sustainably food security.
• Ensure food security, zero hunger and adequate nutrition for the national and global population.
• Ensure food production investment planning for contribution to export earnings.Increase employment opportunities and incomes of the partnership enterprise and out-growers/smallholder farmers.
• Generate resources for general investment economic development.To promote e-Extension as an alternative extension delivery methodology by using the mobile phone and internet facility to disseminate information on proven technologies and  also improve agricultural information outreach to very remote farmers.
• To encourage the adoption of improved technologies under cereal and grain crops.

Indiscriminate engaged in Greenhouse gas emissions, setting bush-fires for hunting, water bodies pollution with petroleum and chemicals by fisher-men factories,  cutting down trees for charcoals, land degradation and environmental ecosystem deforestation by contractors and community people are our challenges of barriers.

Through conducting community advocacy awareness platform education and capacity building training workshop for community environmental management committee for environmental monitoring and protection through farm lands and environmental ecosystem patrolling for preventing contractors from gravel mining, women charcoals burners and also prevent hunters from setting bush-fires. Support farmers to construct fire belt round their farms for  preventing bush-fires from burning the rice farms during harvesting period.

The Partnership Enterprise Advisory Board of Directors and monitoring staff;  full time staff 12;

The Partnership farmers Savannah Farmers Association- part time workers 150; farmers = 50; farm laborers 100 field workers;

Partnership Technical Team (Service Providers contractors 2 each from the 5 organizations)= 10 contracted technical personnel;
1.District Agriculture Department Unit of Ministry of Food and Agriculture- technical services providers;
2.District Forestry Commission;-Technical Services providers;
3.Northern Ghana Network for Development; Capacity building training service providers;
4.Rural Environmental Foundation; Technical Services providing environmental sustainability and climate change adaptation;
5.Dizannia Multi Ventures; Aggregators; retailing rice products and investing in rice production.

Responsibility Experience;  Partnership Program Management team is constituted as management Authority of the project, give instructions of programs activities; the responsibility team are made up of  monitoring and evaluation staff, extension and training services personnel and  partnership technical stakeholders. The management Authority will delegate programs and instruction to responsibility staff and also give them the power to make necessary decisions during project implementation.   The responsibility staff are trained to gain  liberty and confidence to make decisions for sustainable project implementation. The enterprise manages a project effectively through an effective technology planning. We easily do this by planning a defined strategy for the project sustainable development. The partnership and its collaborative partners have identified three keys that will be instrumental in the project success. The implementation of strictly ancestral technology environmental sustainability; ancestral technology rice cultivation and rice products marketing value chain investment. The Partnership Enterprise  experience in market distribution is based on highly specialized market segment, which targets a niche of particular enthusiasts and aims to survive among the competition from numerous super companies in the particular markets. Our market approach is to adapt market information and demand distribution from the target market that can help our business to increase our financial gain margins. We first understand market means to identify the unique needs of our potential market consumers, we provide for them new and compelling products, tailor our products in the right way, communicate efficiently with the target market groups and identify how we will position against our competitors.

We currently partner with Savannah Farmers Association (FBO) supporting them with rice cultivation,  extension and capacity training services.   Partnership Technical Team (Service Providers);-District Department of Agriculture Unit of Ministry of Food and Agriculture; -Technical Services providing in agriculture, processing, extension services, capacity education and monitoring;. District Forestry Commission;-Technical Services providing environmental sustainability implementation projects.; Northern Ghana Network for Development; Capacity building training services in book keeping, processing, farm and financial management as well as bank saving and marketing. Rural Environmental Foundation; Technical Services providing environmental sustainability and climate change adaptation capacity training education implementation and  Dizannia Multi Ventures; Aggregators; retailing, whole sale rice products and investing in rice production.

The Partnership  business model is to maximized and scaled up production to benefit the beneficiary farmers, market customers and consumers and to ensure industry's highest levels of food crops nutritional content for sustainable food security, zero hunger for general public and global livelihood improvement. The farmers need marketing income and  our customers need quality rice, due to these demands driving, the  partnership Enterprise will ensure 100% customer satisfaction for a profitable business through satisfying customers for the development of food products marketing value chain investment for increasing income for farmers and partnership enterprise.  The Partnership Enterprise market distribution is based on highly specialized market segment, which targets a niche of particular enthusiasts and aims to survive among the competition from numerous super companies in the particular markets. Our market approach is to adapt market information and demand distribution from the target market that can help our business to increase our financial gain margins for increasing our farmers and partnership income. We first understand market means to identify the unique needs of our potential market consumers, we provide for them new and compelling products, tailor our products in the right way, communicate efficiently with the target market groups and identify how we will position against our competitors.

The Partnership Enterprise is applying to Solve to help in the form of financial funding, logistics and consultancy support for solving partnership enterprise environmental barriers such as  community people and general public Indiscriminate engaged in Greenhouse gas emissions, water bodies pollution with petroleum and chemicals,  cutting down trees, land degradation and environmental ecosystem deforestation in order to create sustainable fertile land, water and ecosystem vegetation for sustainable food production.Solve support can help partnership to conduct community wide environmental education and rice production under sustainable environment for smallholder farmers.

The partnership goal is to generate and disseminate technologies and innovations as well as provide technical, analytical, training and consultancy services for out-growers and staff in the area of food production for increasing sustainable food security, zero hunger, economic development and wellbeing for all people. In order to achieve the  goal objective of the SDG target and thus, contribute to increasing agricultural production and productivity, it is imperative to undertake partnership  activities that will directly contribute to innovative  farming and technologically proven  which will directly increase partnership enterprise production and marketing base;  increase  market access and boost economic income and  livelihood developments; and To adopt comprehensive scientific farming technology innovation across-sectoral policies, strategies and investment programmes to eradicate hunger as well as food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition.

The partnership would like to partner with Solve Members, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Rural Environmental Foundation, Northern Ghana Network for Development and Dizannia Multi Ventures;The partnership Enterprise will sign contract with Technical partners service providers for under-taking project consultancy and production technology delivery'.

a. Provision of technical and production technology services for out-growers farming and partnership Rice Mill Industry for Improving direct food product chain arrangements between producers, marketing customers, exporters, wholesalers and retailers on the one hand and partnership enterprise on the other hand with the aim of building long-term market partnerships that will attract investors and economic growth. b. Help to explore new sourcing and retail business models for alternative market outlets. c. Help to develop innovative scientific technology and cost-effective production, processing and food storage systems for use by farmers and investors. d. Help to Increases partner farmers’ productivity and income from crops production to improve food security, economic impact and well-being.   e. Help to Supports healthy and quality food crops production, taking into account sustainable environment and food safety standards. f. Help to supports the certification of crops produce under a label that represents Good Agricultural Practices for enhancing food products marketing value chain investment. g. Help to explores direct (new) dedicated (high-end) export channels for high-quality and healthy food crops from Ghana. h. Help to develops farm extension and training activities (service provision) for ensuring scientific technology modern farming practices.

The Partnership Enterprise has qualified for Andan Prize for inclusive displaced refugees and migrants for advancing our project solution.  In the Northern Region of Ghana 50% of displaced persons are women and their dependent children; their continue migration to the urban city of Tamale is over whelming. They are found wondering seeking none existing jobs and income generating economic business activities.  The Partnership examined the actual experience of refugees displaced women in the light of their needs for their greater integration into development-oriented programs such as micro finance and skill work training  support to start-up income generating activities for better livelihood and well-being.  

The Partnership Enterprise has qualified to use women Prize for innovation agribusiness agro-processing such as shear-butter production and rice processing support for women, and also ensure their entrepreneurship development through training and establish Small and Medium Scale Enterprises for them.  The majorities of Northern Region of Ghana extremely poor people are women, still live in rural areas and primarily engaged in cutting down trees for fire wood as their income generation activities for their livelihoods.