The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI) in collaboration with the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) has developed a mobile application to help improve agriculture. The new app codenamed “Telegraph”, could be downloaded on computers and has a unique function to detect timing of insects, pests…
DetailsStakeholders of the cowpea and groundnut value chain met to review activities of the Tropical Legumes III Project and finalize the country work plan and seed roadmap for the year 2018, in harmony with the country’s legumes strategies. This event took place on the 22nd of March 2018 at the CSIR-SARI Conference Hall, Nyankpala. CSIR-SARI…
DetailsUSAID in collaboration with the Government of Ghana and the National Seed Trade Association held its 8th Annual Northern Ghana pre-season planning and network forum at the Modern City Hotel, Tamale, on March 21, 2018. This event held under the theme “Quality Seed: Necessity for Food and Jobs” was to build a platform for stakeholders…
DetailsOn the 28th of February, 2018 CSIR-SARI in collaboration with CountryWise Communication organized its maiden journalist awards event dubbed, “The Harmattan Awards”. This event was to target exemplary agricultural journalist on TV, radio and print media within the three northern regions, and show appreciation for their exceptional work. The event, which took place at the…
DetailsOn the 31st to the 2nd of February 2018, CSIR-SARI held a water management workshop at the Institute’s seminar room at Nyankpala. This was to equip staff on how to effectively manage water for productivity. Water is a basic necessity in a Ghanaian community. It is a natural resource which has to be handled with…
DetailsOn the 23rd January 2018, Mr. Alioune Gorgui Mbow from Integrated Breeding Platform, Senegal paid a visit to the institute to give a brief lecture and discuss the deployment of the Breeding Management System at the Institute and how to manage the data. As the session begun, he introduced to participants the Cloud System. This…
DetailsThough fire has a lot of uses such as; hunting, cooking, food preservation, modifying landscape for agriculture purposes, health purpose like cauterization, fire can be very dangerous and destructive when it gets out of control. Mr. Adogoba Buda and three other Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) personnel visited CSIR-SARI on the 15th December, 2017 to…
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