RSPO Smallholder - Douglas Ohenasa
There are more than 20,000 independent smallholder oil palm farmers supplying fresh fruit bunches (FFB) to medium and large scale oil palm processing mills in Ghana. However, these farmers do not receive any training or extension support from the processing mills and even government extension agents. The average yield of these farmers is around 4 tonnes of FFB per ha per year; about 25% of what it could be. Poor agronomy, limited use of fertiliser and use of low yielding planting materials are the main causes for the low yield levels. With increasing demand for RSPO certified palm oil coupled with the fact that smallholder farmers supply more than 70% of FFB required by oil palm processing mills, smallholders will be left out of the supply chain if they did not attain RSPO certification. These farmers however, do not have the capacity to pay for assistance to obtain certification. To ensure that they are integrated into the oil palm supply chain, funding was sought from the RSPO Smallholder Fund to assist 2000 independent smallholder farmers in Ghana to go through the RSPO certification process.
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