ULTRA MODERN SEED LABORATORY UNIT

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USAID Ghana's Mission Director Jim Bever, the Director of USAID Economic Growth Division, Peter Trenchard, Ghana's Deputy Minister of Agriculture in charge of crops, honourable Dr Ahmed Yakubu Alhassan, and the three Regional Directors of Ministry of Food and Agriculture ( MOFA) from Upper East, Upper West and Northern Regions broke ground in Tamale for the construction of three new seed testing and inspection laboratories for the three regions in Northern Ghana.
The Feed the Future Ghana Agriculture Technology Transfer project is facilitating the construction and equipping of these laboratories to support the public sectors regulation of quality of seed produced in the three northern regions. When completed the facilities will be use international standards to ensure farmers have access to high quality seed. The laboratories will be manned by the Ghana Seed Inspection Unit ( GSIU ), a unit of MOFA directorate, which is in charge of supervising and ensuring seeds produced and sold in Ghana is true to type and label. Each region has a decentralised GSIU responsible for seed quality control through schedule inspection of seed grower fields, laboratory testing of clean, bagging and certification of seed before it can go to market. USAID/Ghana through the Agriculture Technology Transfer project and its partner Lowa state university ( ISU ), continues to provide technical assistance to GSIU to improve and increase the relevance of the services the unit provides to the sector. The project is also facilitating linkages with private sector actors to enable GSIU to effectively provide regulatory services that meet the needs of the seed producers and consumers. The objective of this support is to modernise GSIU operations and functions in laboratory analysis, ensuring there are dedicated workrooms, walk-in germination facilities workbenches and testing equipments. By providing services and establishing a fee structure that supports the long-term sustainability of the facility, the Agriculture Technology Transfer project plans to reduce the institutional bottlenecks that limit farmer access to adequate volumes of high quality seeds.

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