Who We Are?

INTRODUCING NYONKODO FARMERS’ ASSOCIATION

The Nyonko Do Farmers Association, (NFA) is a community-based farmers organization with headquarters at Budumburam, Kasoa , Central Region. The Association is a member of the Food Based Organization (FBO), Awutu Senya East Municipal Assembly, and the Central Regional Apex Farmers Association (CRAFA).
It is also a registered member of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) and the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA).
The association has formed collaborations with the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) and in the process of forming same with the Kofi Annan ICT Centre for technical support in Agribusiness development and Ecommerce respectfully.

COMMUNITY IMPACT

Inhabitants in our catchment areas have in the past benefited from the Nyonko Do Farmers Association through employment opportunities offered to them. This has gone a long way to improve their standard of living, especially donation to the orphanages at Dodowa, Nyanowoa, Bawjiase, Kasoa. Other beneficiaries include Cape Coast prisons and the psychiatric hospital at Ankaful, all in the Central Region. NFA also provided sponsorship to the poor and the needy in health and education.
The Association is taking advantage of government’s policy of expanding the non-traditional export sector and planting for food and jobs, the Agriculture and Agro-Processing Credit Facility (AACF) and the Ghana Export Promotion.
The Association seeks to fulfill its quota in response to this brilliant government idea and has applied for Exim Bank Loan, applied to the 1D1F program and still waiting for response. NBSSI recently responded with some support to some of the members who applied for the Covid-19 relief support.
Madam Rebecca Akua Afriyie Aboagye expresses her heartfelt appreciation to all and sundry who has sup-ported her and the association members throughout the years and those who are yet on their way to join their worthy cause, she welcomes you all with love from unified friends: ‘Nyonko Do, Biako Ye’

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The Association provides training and support services to small and medium scale Farmers with the view to facilitate and improve yield and minimize post-harvest losses. The Nyonko Do Farmers Association engages in the cultivation of pineapples, rice, cassava, ginger, cocoa, cashew, groundnut, pepper, tiger nut, cabbage, etc.
The farmers also produce livestock such as poultry, sheep, goats and grasscutters, It acquires tracks of farm-lands for the development of members in the form of grants and loans to assist them in their businesses. Projects are underway to construct facilities for restrooms, boreholes and training and storage spaces on the farms.

HOW IT ALL STARTED

Madam Rebecca Aboagye moved into Kasoa to settle with her children as a single mother. She rented a home and one day after she bought GHS2.00 worth of tomatoes from the market, she realised the tomatoes were rotten so she threw it somewhere on the compound. The seeds sprouted and gave her a big tomato garden to her surprise, when the plants fruited, passers by will stop and ask to take some home. She became excited so she went to the market and got okro, garden eggs and pepper to cultivate the space of the land she had available around the house and very soon her big garden won the admiration of her friends and passers by. She added cassava, kontonmire and more crops to feed her family from the little home farm she had cultivated. Later on her three friends came to enquire about how they could also farm for their families so they went to Bawjiase to speak to the chief, Nana Korabi who laughed at them because he saw them as mere women who wanted to become farmers but he took them to the palace and supported them with the ‘amambre’ and soon after, the three women were able to cultivate a five acre maize farm to the amazement of the chief. One day, Mr. Donkor from Georgefield Farms was passing by and admired the success of the women, in the persons of Agatha, Cecelia Baiden, Comfort Nyarko and Rebecca Aboagye. So he promised to help them and took them to Jei-krodua, where he gave them equipment, fertilizer and other kinds of support. One day he gave the three women 25 acres of land and took them to introduce them to the chief of Jei-kro-dua. Not very long after that people started hearing about the 3 women farmers at Jei-krodua and so they came enquiring about how they could join. They came from Okwabena, Kusikwanta, Ahenetia all in the surburbs of Bawjiase and then Okyereko . Madam Rebecca then decided to set up groups, as they do in churches, she named them the Abigail group, Ennso Nyame ye group, Millicom group, Peace farmers group and Nyame Bekyere group, to name but a few. By 2008 they had acquired about 40 acres of cultivated land. They were introduced to Honourable Gladys Asmah, who gave the women GHS 50 each and they bought seeds and cultivated more, so the activities increased with more women joining the groups. At this point, Madam Rebecca also found it expedient to set up a widow’s group which she named Emmanuel group widows. After the first harvest somewhere in the year 2002, the women farmers made some good money. Some years later, an elder came to visit them to know more about what they were doing. Normally on the farm they will cook and they will all join in and eat, he enjoyed their hospitality and mentioned EDAIF to them. They applied for support from EDAIF and were awarded a grant of USD 100k and pineapple suckers of 80 acres in the year 2012. The association bought 150 acres of land from Bosomabra with the proceeds from the support they got from EDAIF. From here the group increased to 500 and they got a ‘krakye’ by name Mr Sarpong Kumankomah who became their secretary and supported them with all their paperwork. The farms increased with rice farms, poultry etc, much as anyone can do. They now have 1000 acres of land that they have registered in Duodukwaa.

REBECCA AKUA AFRIYIE ABOAGYE

Madam Rebecca Akua Afriyie Aboagye was born in Ashanti Akyem Amentia, where she attained her basic education. She was playful in Amentia so her father sent her to Ashaiman to complete middle school.
She started her own business at age fourteen selling iced water in Accra. Due to her hard work which was closely observed by a co- tenant, she was recommended for marriage to a custom officer.
Mr. Robert Acquah and Mrs. Rebecca Acquah were married for thirteen fruitful years and were blessed with six children. Madam Rebecca went into politics with the sole aim of supporting the needy in society.
She was the Assembly woman at Kasoa for four years and also an appointee for four years.

AS A GOOD ACCOUNTANT

Madam Rebecca Aboagye is an entrepreneur who has tried her hands on several businesses.
Her core and current business is farming and has gathered experience for over twenty years.
She is also the prophetess of Elected Church where she ministers to families.
She has successfully raised her children as a widow and educated all of them by the grace of God.

AS A WELCOMER

Maa Rebecca as she is affectionately called by the Nyonko Do Farmers Association members, earned that name through motherly love, nurturing and care for others.
She is the founder and president of Nyonko Do Farmers Association which she started in the year 2002. Her warm smile invites all and sundry into her hospitable care.
This project was a vision she had to help the needy in the community. She has managed the association with a team of professionals in the NFA’s head quarters.