AGRICULTURE

Subsistence agriculture is the main type of agriculture practiced by individuals engaged in the sector within the Municipality. It focuses on the cultivation of vegetables such as carrot, cabbage, lettuce, green pepper, spring onions, cucumber, ayoyo, aleefi, garden eggs, okro and other crops including maize, rice and cowpea as well as rearing of livestocks such as poultry, goat, sheep, cattle, pigs and fish farming on a very small scale.

These could be found in and around KNUST campus and in low-lying areas within the Municipality. Rice farming is another agricultural activity undertaken in the Municipality, specifically Appiadu. The major challenge within the sector is the growing competition for land. However, the Agric Directorate has liaised with KNUST and secured land for farmers.

Among the recent achievements under Agric development are the setting up of monthly organic vegetable market which has yielded tremendous results and also production of spring onion seedling through a collaboration with CSIR-CRI.