Iowa State to help implement agricultural policy in Ghana

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oj 10 years ago

GOD BLESS GHAMA!!!

GOD BLESS GHAMA!!!
Antwi 10 years ago

Don't impose genetical modified seeds on us. This just another form of colonization.

Don't impose genetical modified seeds on us. This just another form of colonization.
Paa Kwesi 10 years ago

Why is anyone asking farmers in Ghana to stay humble. Is it a special key to agriculture? I don't get that kind of thinking. Africans have always stayed humble to their own detriment while people steal from them.

Why is anyone asking farmers in Ghana to stay humble. Is it a special key to agriculture? I don't get that kind of thinking. Africans have always stayed humble to their own detriment while people steal from them.
Ibn Batuta 10 years ago

Iowa State University is a world class premier Agriculture institution. It has trained many competent Ghanaian graduates. One of their top Agric professors is a Ghanaian. This is a win win proposition for Ghana.

Iowa State University is a world class premier Agriculture institution. It has trained many competent Ghanaian graduates. One of their top Agric professors is a Ghanaian. This is a win win proposition for Ghana.
Bometsitsi 10 years ago

Only one? What is the professor's name? By the way Iowa is only known for their tasteless GMO corn, good for feeding GMO cows...Cows are supposed to eat grass! Check your records... IOWA...really?

Only one? What is the professor's name? By the way Iowa is only known for their tasteless GMO corn, good for feeding GMO cows...Cows are supposed to eat grass! Check your records... IOWA...really?
PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 10 years ago

A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500 and has $560
monthly payments. He and a friend go duck hunting in winter, and of
course all the lakes are frozen. These two guys go out on the lake
with the guns in ...
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A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500 and has $560
monthly payments. He and a friend go duck hunting in winter, and of
course all the lakes are frozen. These two guys go out on the lake
with the guns in IOWA, the dog, and of course the new vehicle.

They drive out onto the lake ice and get ready. Now, they want to
make some kind of a natural landing area for the ducks, something for
the decoys to float on. In order to make a hole large enough to look
like something a wandering duck would fly down and land on, it is going
to take a little more effort than an ice hole drill.

So, out of the back of the new Navigator comes a stick of dynamite
with a short, 40-second fuse. Now these two Rocket Scientists do take
into consideration that they want to place the stick of dynamite on the
ice at a location far from where they are standing (and the new
Navigator), because they don't want to take the risk of slipping on the
ice when they run from the burning fuse and possibly go up in smoke
with the resulting blast.

They light the 40-second fuse and throw the dynamite. Remember a
couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the vehicle, the guns and
the dog? Let's talk about the dog: A highly trained Black Lab used
for RETRIEVING. Especially things thrown by the owner.

You guessed it, the dog takes off at a high rate of doggy speed on
the ice and captures the stick of dynamite with the burning 40-second
fuse about the time it hits the ice. The two men yell, scream, wave
their arms and wonder what to do now. The dog, cheered on, keeps
coming. One of the guys grabs the shotgun and shoots the dog. The
shotgun is loaded with # 8 buckshot, hardly big enough to stop a Black
Lab. The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused, but continues on.
Another shot and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really
confused, and of course terrified, thinking these two geniuses have
gone insane.

The dog takes off to find cover, under the brand new Navigator.
----BOOM!---- Dog and Navigator are blown to bits and sink to the
bottom of the lake in a very large hole, leaving the two idiots
standing there with this "I can't believe this happened" look on
their faces.
The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by
illegal use of explosives is not covered. He still had yet to make the
first of those $560 a month payments!
And you thought the red necks from the state of idiots walking around[IOWA]]are better than Ghanaian agricultural Scientist.
Bometsitsi 10 years ago

How do these idiots think we have been farming and eating all these years? God! come down and help Ghana!

How do these idiots think we have been farming and eating all these years? God! come down and help Ghana!
Togbe Fiti 10 years ago

Good show, ISU. We expect you to deliver as usual. You have a strong local alumni contingent to give you the necessary back up if need be.

Good show, ISU. We expect you to deliver as usual. You have a strong local alumni contingent to give you the necessary back up if need be.
PK 10 years ago

You are still #2. Go Hawkeye! Go Iowa City!

You are still #2. Go Hawkeye! Go Iowa City!
PEKI TUMU 10 years ago

NO GMO by the back door Ldts use our local seeds and develop their potential to the full

NO GMO by the back door Ldts use our local seeds and develop their potential to the full

Oboshen 10 years ago

Sorry PEKI, our stupid 'leaders', greedy, ignorant 'experts', who are stooges of foreign corporations will never listen. Just destroy whatever they grow until they stop.

Sorry PEKI, our stupid 'leaders', greedy, ignorant 'experts', who are stooges of foreign corporations will never listen. Just destroy whatever they grow until they stop.
Kwaku 10 years ago

Fifty years after "independence" Ghana is looking to tiny Iowa, a state with a population of 3.1 million people (just compare this to 4 million inhabitants for Accra alone) to provide it with agricultural expertise? What a sh ...
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Fifty years after "independence" Ghana is looking to tiny Iowa, a state with a population of 3.1 million people (just compare this to 4 million inhabitants for Accra alone) to provide it with agricultural expertise? What a shame! There is something wrong with Africa as a whole.
PK 10 years ago

My brother, I went to University of Iowa and Iowa Sate is the 2nd largest University in the State of Iowa.

My brother, I went to University of Iowa and Iowa Sate is the 2nd largest University in the State of Iowa.
Koo 10 years ago

Tweaa!

Tweaa!
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

The problem with Ghana's agriculture is that it is suffering from urban bias. The rural folks must produce the food, process what they produce to raise the value, all in the rural areas, before shipping the products.

Let ...
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The problem with Ghana's agriculture is that it is suffering from urban bias. The rural folks must produce the food, process what they produce to raise the value, all in the rural areas, before shipping the products.

Let the urban people come to them, instead of them traveling to the urban centres to sell their produce. We are still practicing the colonial agricultural policy.
BOAFO YENA 10 years ago

Isn't this an attempt by Prof. Beghin
& Chemonic to influence the Plant Breeders' Bill now sitting in Parliament?

I am afraid these guys are trying to usher in genetically modified seeds and foodstuff into our country ...
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Isn't this an attempt by Prof. Beghin
& Chemonic to influence the Plant Breeders' Bill now sitting in Parliament?

I am afraid these guys are trying to usher in genetically modified seeds and foodstuff into our country and harm our small-scale farmers.
I worry a lot about the potential health implications of GM seeds.
Plasma Kote 10 years ago

Beware of experimental products and seeds. Africa should not be a TESTING LAB. Politician take bribes for anything, JUST TO THE LEXUS.

Beware of experimental products and seeds. Africa should not be a TESTING LAB. Politician take bribes for anything, JUST TO THE LEXUS.
Oboshen 10 years ago

Our so-called professors/experts are all 'ignorant stooges' so what do you do? Only solution is burn down whatever they grow until they stop.

Our so-called professors/experts are all 'ignorant stooges' so what do you do? Only solution is burn down whatever they grow until they stop.
Mary Mensah 10 years ago

Iowa State watch out before the corrupt Ghana govt steals the money meant for the public. Do not be fooled by the government of Ghana. The office of the president is the most corrupt organization in Ghana.

Iowa State watch out before the corrupt Ghana govt steals the money meant for the public. Do not be fooled by the government of Ghana. The office of the president is the most corrupt organization in Ghana.

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