Dr. Maik Springmann participates in February 2024 at the important meeting from the water board in Cape Coast. The purpose of the meeting is the protection of the Agege lake against contamination by pesticides and herbicides through small scale farmers who are still not trained enough how to conduct agriculture without chemical additives.
It is a great trend that the Ghanaian authorities have now understood that the drinking water protection areas must be valued more vehemently. It’s great that we now have official support for this ecological principle that we have been following for over 20 years!
If farmers dont want to follow our concept and the general ecological principles, then it is necessary to create a puffer zone around lakes like the Agege.
Nana Baifi from Baifikrom accompanied us in March 2023 with his entourage to the “Learning Practice Alliance" stakeholder meeting at the University of Cape Coast to learn more about the DIVAGRI project aims and to start a closer networking.
Since the beginning of the DIVAGRI project we are handing out leaflets to interested farmers from our neighbourhood and the next village Baifikrom.
The leaflets explain our collaboration with the UCC and the CSIR in Kumasi.
Maik met in the last years many stakeholders to promote our farm idea with the ecological and sustainable concept behind, like here the Nana Baifi (left picture).
The right picture shows a meeting in the village council of Mankessim.
Maik is promoting the DIVAGRI project at all the important stakeholders of the local community, as here in November 2022 to Daniel Tetteh, Mfantseman Municipal Assembly Saltpond (left picture) and to the director of the Agric department of the Mfantseman Municipal Assembly Saltpond (right picture).
Meeting in November 2022 at Lake Agege Farm with Rockson Atanga, Agric Agent Mankessim Operational Area