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But this is the situation that Africans don't take agriculture seriously because we think that being a farmer is equal to being a poor man. Do you think that agriculture is the future? Agriculture is the future. I don't buy the mindset that if you are a dream farmer or you are a farmer, you remain poor. It's never true. The kind of opportunity this agriculture gives me with my family is a super. Especially the sweet potato. I call sweet potato super food because it has vitamin A. It has everything. We have to understand the concept of educating the people around Africa that agriculture is a business, it's a blessing even from God. If you want to translate in the Bible, you see Solomo is rich out of farming. So what is wrong for we cannot take agriculture seriously. We have to take it as a agriculture serious. So Africa, that's the opportunity we have. If you put one seed on the soil, half a water is germinated, that's what we want again. But when you go to Europe, their land size is small, but they use their land sizes over a hundred ages, but they are still planted. But our lands are virgin land. So what prevents us? Then what do you think is wrong with us then? One thought is coming from our leaders. Because if you don't have a neighboring environment or good policy to help the farmer, it's a challenge. Maybe I bring equipment at the pot. I want to use it to do farming. The kind of investment I have put in to clear the goose, bring it to the farm, it's already take the capital. But if the government or African leaders have a good policy and to favor the farmers, I think we inform a sector, we can employ more than even the government sector. So the problem is the good policy. If you have good policy in the country, we are good to go. But some of African countries, number one Ghana, we don't have a good policy. A farmer like me, have work as 86 workers have to be paying, even pay tax to the government. Because there's no exemption anymore on farming. So every year you have to pay something to the government. Where the government have to come look, I want this sector to look very good. You are bringing for a currency to the country to helping us because the government use that for a currency. Our export, as a guarantee, go to IMF, go to Donets to get money. We have a policy in paper by implementation. Nothing is happening. That's the big challenge we have. My name is Fales Kamasa Maoli. I'm the founder of Muffley Strasgana Limiter. My part from Georgia and Keter. That's where I'm coming from. And then I found this business together with my wife. Her name is Gifty Kafe Mensa. She is the Human Resources Manager. Actually this initiative started in 2013. Where I decided to stop my work at previous place UT Bank to start this initiative. And we started looking for the land. You were a banker and decided to quit and become a farmer. Sorry, I have so many brothers out there. They said I should ask you. Is everything okay with you? Everything is okay. We love being in cities. No, I want that it's not everybody who can be in the bank. Because sometimes when they bring you are working, they bring you your lunch. You see the kind of vegetable and all where it's coming from. My idea is that, do I know where those produce are coming from? So one of my idea is that if we are eating quality vegetable, it's not need the government to be spending so much having a policy want to build one district, one hospital, one agenda, what what. Because vegetable is good for our health. So I choose vegetable part that everything we eat every day, there's something coming from vegetable. So beginning was tough, but realize now we have a lot of team and have 86 staff, permanent staff, have oppression manager, have account officer. You said your wife help you establish the company. You know what, when you were working in a bank and then you told your wife that you want to quit and become a farmer. She also is a teacher, she also resigned and joined me. So it's something we look at it and I see that the vision will come together. She stopped teaching and she even forced to learn as agronomy now. She trained a lot of women, trained a lot of workers and you'll be amazed, we come out with some product called sweet potato gari. We use the reject of the potato when we export the reject one. We use it for processing gari. Let's give a round of applause to your wife. Yeah, a round of applause. I know you're going to watch this video and I really love women that really support their husbands and that's why I'm giving you a round of applause. Let me know, now your farm is the biggest exporter of sweet potatoes. What else do you grow apart from sweet potatoes? We grow okra, we grow chili pepper, we grow teriyaki, asian vegetable, we call it bitter goat family. We grow cucumber, we grow cabbage, you will go and see some of them in the greenhouses. We grow bed eye, we grow about 22 crops in this farm. We do a little of coconut, we do a little of mango. We do yam, so you can see that's the yam the women are planting. My guys are planting and I like working with women a lot. So when you go to the greenhouse you see women doing prune, because they take their time, some particular job we give it to women. They take their time to do it very well. Women work hard but you know us, we work like we are fighting with somebody giving box. But women they take their time and they will do it and do it very well, accurate. Like you know you see the yam, this whole mountain that they are planting the yam on why though, why that you have to make this whole mountain. Yeah it will have a free movement to grow, yes to grow and then not to have to heat stone and then to look straight to meet the spot market. I have a sumo hodaf farmers about 86 sumo hodaf farmers. What we do to the sumo hodaf and we call it out growers. What we do for them is that we plough for them, we give them planting material, we give them fertilizer. So when the produce is ready we buy for them. So we monitor them closely. So when you get to Keter, you can visit some of them, Keter and Logan Way, we have some small hodaf farmers there. So which means that when you plough and do everything for them you buy the produce. So we already immediately we train you, give you the planting material, we sign a contract. We know the price before you are producing. When it's ready, we buy our car loaded, then we package, then we ship. We take that off load because what we realize is that most of Ghanians market is a challenge. We have the market. We are not even able to sustain the market. But we don't produce occurring. So that's why we are trying to bring that bridge and close it together so that the farmer also is happy. We also be happy. We are not there to cheat the farmer. We have analysis for every production, every crop we do here. We have analysis and see whether it's profitable. If it's not profitable, we advise you to do this crop. We are the market. So we are going to take it. What type of farming are you practicing in here? Yes, we have two-fold of farming. We have organic and inorganic. If I said inorganic, that's a convention. Some of the chemical we use is a convention. And we have organic for particular the niche market. That organic market is not big. But we have it in the niche market. When you go to the greenhouse, most of the tomatoes, they are organic. Our tomatoes, we can leave it in the fridge for one month, two months is there without rotting. Yes, people have classified it. They know the kind of tomatoes it is. We will go and see the super cherry we have there. Definitely. But how many acres are you? I mean, for this farm, how many acres? The whole in Thailand is around 1900 acres. But at the moment, we are cultivating 600 acres. By the close of this year, we want to hit all the 1900. So when you go down, you know, we do cassava, we don't focus on one product, we do crop rotation. So you see some of the place they have maize cassava. And then we use it. So by the close of the year, this year in particular, we want to cultivate all the land. Now I want to know how it all started. First of all, we are in the Volta region. Why the Volta region then? I look at it that I'm native from this Volta region. I always say that Voltaians who can do and make African proud, make Ghana proud and African proud. So we say no, let's start people pull me. Let's go to north. We have some land at the north. But I say no, let's start from the Volta region. So we start gradually. Those time is not easy. All this place you are seeing is like a forest. But people thought that we can pull the forest down and make it as a use. We are able to put it down and make it now where we are. So we start gradually. I come with my wife who come sometime rain will beat us. Our car will have a problem who remain in the farm. We leave the farm around. Sometime when it rain heavily, the car will start. We can't even move. We will be calling the tractor drivers to come and help us before they will come. Then it's around eight, nine. Imagine you have a woman to be with you in the forest. Somebody who is also a graduate and leave his teaching work through comfortable holding market. But leaving a teaching work to join you in the bush. It's amazed, but I always give glory to God. Do I need a lot of money to start agriculture? No, you don't need a lot of money. You have to start gradually. Beginning we go around the bank looking for money. The bank will come, they will come back, put your book in order, do this. Have a business plan, do this. You do the business plan, they will come back. But now we see the light, people contact us and we got some investment last time. Even US aid, even supporters with some grant we are here to receive the grant. But it's okay. That doesn't mean that when you started, you didn't have the funds. We start with our own fund, small fund where we know that that's our capacity. On a 28k scale, gradually we are spending. Gradually we are spending because you know bankers, they want numbers and figures. And then the profit margin, they look at the margin. But since I have gone, leave that industry beyond the third. When I meet colleagues, I tell them, it's good area, but it's commitment and time. When the person is good, you just support them, you see the reality. Because export market, it depends on volume, it depends on the profit. But the bank, they don't see that. They see the kind of influence coming before they start talking to talking business. What is the major challenge that you face during this famine? The major challenge at the exportation and all of that? What is that major challenge? Yes, I will start from the production. Producing the big challenge is the capital to get equipment. Because Ghana, you know, we don't have the right equipment. One of my focus is that the assembly is around. Why can't the government support the assembly bring equipment? If I need equipment to do a major work, I go to the assembly, pay something to them, get it, have access to it. If I want it in my own way, they rent it for me. It's a big challenge. And the second challenge is that after we are able to succeed, the produce, you have a good produce. Export is one of the challenge. Ghana, we don't have our own cargo. Kenya have its own, Kenya away. We want to have its own cargo. When you go to Ethiopia, the same thing. You go to South Africa, the same thing. Ghana, we rely on the passenger cargo. Passengers, our mission is passenger cargo because if, for example, there's a booking for KLM and the plane is full, that means my produce cannot go because they pick a luggage, the space they use as cargo for the passengers, the bags. That's the space we also use. Asat, asat now. So it's a big challenge. And our effort is very expensive. Before COVID, we are paying $0.80. Now we are paying $1.70. Double of the price. But when you go to Kenya, it's not like that. Because the Kenya government say, hey, fruit and vegetable and flower, that bring a lot of dollars to the country. They have a cargo flight, purposely for fruit and vegetable. So they solve a great problem for the industry. Ghana, can we do the same thing? I know Ghana is for promotion but we have a non-traditional spot document as part of the people to draft the document. But it's a long term initiative. We need a solution now. Because the bias, when they sign up with you and you're able to sustain them 2 years and the second year, you delay about this month, they are looking somewhere because they also sign up with other disabilities. So that's a big challenge we have now. What I think that the government have to look at it critically. Understand the practical people, those people who practice like how the doctors be in the hospital do their practice. They should look the farming, the industry players like that. Come to them. Don't come to academic people. They will do research which the research which is not valuable to the industry. But I thought the AFCTC have their headquarters across. So logistics moving around will be quite easy. It's great to have the office. But at the moment, which commodity are we trading to have a statistic to know that I prophesized that the next 5 years if Ghana didn't take time to move that office to other Kodevoa or Nigeria. My problem is that as they start already, do we identify the industry players who trade among ourselves to Togo, Benin and know one of the big challenge to when I export to Kodevoa if there's a payment you have to go to the corresponding bank. My corresponding bank, maybe city bank in US before they will direct the money to Ghana. When Kodevoa is here, I can leave today that I'm going to Kodevoa. I arrive in Kodevoa. It's one of the big challenge our payment system. I learned one of the bank is coming up to work on that. I raised this issue several times. Those are the things they have to do first. Is this feasible? Let's try it before because already when I export to UK, some of the payment I can get it the following day. Back to Kodevoa we have to go to their corresponding bank. Are you trying to link those things together already? Are you trying to say that the AFCTC just on paper they are not practicing it? Yes, we are not practicing it because they are targeting on those Kasapreku. Everybody know Kasapreku has been in Nigeria market long ago. They use those companies. They are using NS chemistry. Everybody know that NS chemistry is there already. Can we play along with a new companies who are coming have a potential a sport in South Africa Benin, Togo, Nigeria what commodity Benin is doing or Togo is doing Ghana is not doing. Can we look at that and trade on it because people come from Togo sometime coming by the the leaf because they use the leaf like a condom they use it because you have the high vitam. Mali Malawi do that. Oh, we have this in Ghana can we trade it on that? It's a big challenge. The barrier we have in terms of transport locally because I've been an echo member of a task for transporting tomatoes from Bokina coming to Ghana. Sometimes those barrier when you get to Bobo Janshin you have to pay and some of the marketing we have to call this a challenge. Do we remove those barrier already? Have a correct document correct system or originated of goods? Do we finish have a software of that? If I want to export sweet potatoes to Bokina first to enter immediately then I can have my serial number or 13 the gate number. Do we have those in place? Can we do this? You all should first of all like the video and let's share this video so that we can use this video to solve the problems that farmers are facing in Africa in general especially Ghana do me a favor first of all like the video share talk to the people involved so that we can get the solution that we are all looking for for farmers in Africa. I mean for the sake of people who are watching us for the first time what is Greenhouse all about? The Greenhouse is just like a protected area where you can grow your product pest free because this is cover area so pest cannot come in. So it's less chemical you don't use chemical for it to control the pest. Like it's an open field you see the produce beautiful like this even when you harvest open field like outside you plant outside the plant life doesn't last longer when you plant it here you have a good yield have a good volume have a good chef life of the tomatoes. So how many tomatoes do you produce like in terms of harvesting? The life cycle of this tunnel we call it tunnel too so we are hitting six tunnel season. Will you say that it's a creative business? Yeah because it's greenhouse tomatoes everybody know everybody want to eat quality food it's organic the chef life so it's a good but it's capita intensive because this one tunnel we are now it's around $12,000 which we have about 40 of them we have another one 18 we want to hit 60 that's our target so 40 is ready now for cultivation that's what we are doing and does it mean that when you plant in a greenhouse you produce more you produce more and then the chef life of the plant also last longer you know this we don't plant them in underground you see that we plant them in a bucket it's a protected area where it's out of pest so we control it's like a baby my child is growing how you give him correct new trends you follow his step how does it feel being a farmer whenever you come into your own farm oh I feel happy joy like the whole day I don't feel like eating you see me going round I go round I come to farm early by 4 o'clock I'm around early morning I want to see how the plant look before the sun then I study then I ask my workers this what I see can we move on that joy alone then my stomach is full the whole day I want to eat up to even time I normally eat in the evening if I'm around I'm in the farm unless my wife is with me and she cook around in the farm then she will be calling me and she come and eat you know the woman they have power you have to obey in that circumstance but if she's not part the whole day they I want to eat up to eat where do you get your irrigation from how do you do irrigation water yes this we have two fold of irrigation the green houses we are using boho we have eight boho around so we are using boho open field we pump we have our own dam we pump from the dam for the open field so the green house they are living on boho because we need clean water and the potatoes the potatoes we are using dam for it we have a dugout which we pump water for but there is no electricity in this area yes we use a generator we spend so much on the fuel you know the increased fuel again so that's what people don't understand that's what I said we have a good policy it cut across it affect every business because just yesterday before my operation manager called me they went and get fuel he saw the risk he said the increase fuel again so it will amaze you every week every two weeks we spend about twenty two thousand on the fuel I always tell people that for me it's not that having a lot of capital but it's a passion and love it's just that you have one child or how you love your mom or you love your wife you give the same training to the farm you are good to go me when I come here you see me and work among the workers you even know I'm the one managing the farm it's a passion and love that's a trick are you looking forward to establish your own processor in here yes that's one of my agenda this year the sweet potato want to process you know Ghana Africa we eat a lot of bread so sweet potato we want to use the reject to process to puree the puree they use it for bread they use it for chips they use it for yogurt we have sweet potato yogurt I have contacted a farmer want to supply but they want me to put up the factory that's my vision I'm also looking at it if I get a good investment I get an invoice for the equipment already do you need investors to invest in your business you know I have so many African diaspora who would love to invest in your business and I'm hoping for that I'm hoping for that those investors those who want to invest come through me so that I can get one percent we have so many young Africans who are looking forward to venture into agriculture if you have a message to them what would that message be I even have an opportunity for them getting some land to develop get them the input and everything I buy the produce I know the market guide them what they are supposed to do so that it will be in the same page so they should come down we talk because we train a lot of youth here we will help them to have access to land we will help them to develop it then we buy the produce from them so which means that they bring the money even not necessarily the money if we help them one concept we are running we want to run is that the youth will plow the land for you give you the input you guide it with your small investment you have when you come the kind of budget you can get we can guide you support you to enter material see them buy the produce it's only my message to the leaders African leaders listen what is that message that you are yearning within you that you want to tell them because they all watch my videos what will that message be they should look agriculture as their priority you all have heard him right look agriculture as the major priorities because agriculture is a way to go whoa that's a new statement from the man himself thank you so much for watching and where can they find you they can find me at our farm located at Ketun North District but we have our administrative office in Accra at the opposite Osafo Kantaka in Shoru we are direct opposite to them but anything everything go on operation go on in the farm so if they are looking for me they should come to the farm thank you so much for watching don't forget to like the video it's very important to me subscribe and be part of the million family share the video let the world see what Mr. has done in the voter region my name is Mr. the one and only annoying village boy from Ghana it's rather unfortunate that I went to the farm and I'm still wearing my slippers I'll see you all in the next one bye