The Ministry of Food and Agriculture’s Plant Protection and Regulatory Services Directorate (PPRSD) has certified a new organic fertilizer that provides a higher and healthier yield for farmers while also providing a cushion for the country’s small and medium-scale agro-processors.
Comcat, a powdered German product, has been tried and tested by farmers in the Volta, Western, and Oti regions, as well as in the country’s northern belts, and may be used on trees, crops, and flowers.
“It is so economical that nine grammes can be put into a knapsack containing 16 litres of water to spray an entire farm. A hundred grammes of Comcat can cover three acres of land,” Mr Hope Nyadi, Managing Director of Winstep Company Limited, told the Graphic Business in an exclusive interview in Accra yesterday.
According to researchers, the fertiliser is also capable of revitalizing dead farmlands.
Mr Nyadi proved the chemical’s effectiveness with films and images of staple foods such as rice, maize, cassava, vegetables, and cocoa fields where the fertiliser had been applied, and defined its distinctive characteristic as totally organic and human friendly.
“All you need is to pour this powder into a knapsack containing water and spray it on stems, leaves and roots of crops and they will multiply in excess,” he stated.
Mr Nyadi, who encouraged young people to engage into farming, also stated that products grown with Comcat have longer shelf life and promised to donate the product to young farmers.
He confirmed that the chemical is non-toxic and harmless to the environment.
“Comcat stimulates important metabolic processes, photosynthesis and respiration in plants and crops and also reduces the stress load on the crop,” he noted.
