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Admissions Open for Diploma Courses in Agriculture

KITA – The institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kumasi is at the forefront of Professional, Tertiary, Technical and Vocational Agricultural education and training since 1984, offering a wide range of full time and part time courses for prospective and practicing farmers and agriculturalist. COURSES OFFERED BY THE COLLEGE INCLUDE: 1. DIPLOMA IN TROPICAL AGRICULTURE, (DIPTA) – 3 YEARS Entry Requirements: …

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Welcome to KITA

Welcome The Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kumasi (KITA) welcomes you to www.kita-ghana.org our home on the Internet since 2004. The Director and staff of KITA hope that you find this web site informative and that if you can help us achieve our objectives that you will contact us. If you can’t find what you are looking for please …

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KITA trains Peace Corps Volunteers in Agroforestry and Alternative Livelihoods

KITA hosted training for new Peace Corps Volunteers for the Environment, Education and Water, Health and Sanitation Sectors in agro-forestry and alternative livelihoods in November and December 2010 to equip the volunteers and their counterparts with skills to develop rural livelihoods. The Peace Corps volunteers were trained in seed treatment, nursery management, gardening, mushroom production, …

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KITA Receives New MOFA Award for Best Institution

We are pleased to share the joy of our award with you as partners. We are pleased to inform you that on December 3rd 2010, KITA received an award as the Best Institution from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture – MOFA once again at its 26th National Farmers Day celebration in the Ashanti region in …

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Admissions Open for Diploma Courses in Agriculture

Welcome to KITA

KITA trains Peace Corps Volunteers in Agroforestry and Alternative Livelihoods

KITA Receives New MOFA Award for Best Institution

Welcome to KITA

by Lovans

Welcome

The Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kumasi (KITA) welcomes you to www.kita-ghana.org our home on the Internet since 2004. The Director and staff of KITA hope that you find this web site informative and that if you can help us achieve our objectives that you will contact us. If you can’t find what you are looking for please try our site map.

Our thanks go to Permaworld Foundation for making this site possible. You can help Permaworld support KITA by taking advantage of Permaworld’s cost-effective web hosting packages. The profit from web hosting sales and other products allow Permaworld to provide financial support to earth care organisations such as KITA.

In Brief

KITA is a non-profit making non-governmental institution providing vocational technical training, extension, and consultancy in general tropical agriculture to practising and prospective farmers. It is also involved in rural development and community extension.

The Professional Farmers College of KITA offers Diploma and Certificate Courses in Tropical Agriculture both residential and Distance learning components at its center located between Domeabra and Apromase in the Ejisu Juaben district of the Ashanti region of Ghana.

KITA’s center for Community Extension and Rural Development focuses on development of Rural communities through the provision of training, research and empowerment of farmers groups to improve food security, environmental conservation and wealth creation.

KITA was established in 1984 as a follow up to a research report in 1976 that proposed that an agricultural technical college be established to cater for young school leavers who wish to take up farming as a career and to improve upon the skills of traditional farmers in Ghana.

In 1985 KITA was granted certificates to operate as a non-profit making institution under a Board of Trustees.

KITA has the recognition of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), Ministry of Education (MOE), Ministry of Manpower Development and Employment (MMDE).

Since then the institute has assumed national and international importance, training students from Africa, Europe, America and all over the world and also promoting environmental conservation and rural development.

Goals

Its goal is training, consultancy, research for agriculture and rural development and the protection of the environment for sustained increase in agricultural productivity.

The activities of the institute revolve around this goal with special reference to youth, women, and peasant farmers at grassroots level.

KITA IS A CERTIFIED MEMBER OF IFOAM: (International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements) and has been making a major contributing to the promotion of organic and natural farming in Ghana.

KITA is a certfied Organic Exporter: In October 2006, KITA was approved as an exporter of organic and natural agricultural products for the produce of farmers trained at KITA. KITA Looks forward to network with interested organic importers and exporters from around the world.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS - Read more about these in the news section

December 2010 – KITA receives new Award as Best Institution from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture – more

December 2010 – KITA trains Peace Corps Volunteers in agroforestry and alternative livelihoods – more

December 2010 – KITA plants One Million trees with Trees for the Future USA and other NGOs in Ghana. more www.treesftf.org/projects/ghana.htm

December 2010 – KITA’s Professional Farmers College Opens Admissions for February 2011 enrollment into Diploma and Certificate courses in General Agriculture. Fresh and Continuing Students are to report on 1st February 2010. For Further Information visit college or call 00233 – 244-108268

2008 – Kita introduces competency based farmer education and training programs to assist prospective and practising farmers to improve upon their managerial and technical skills. These short management and vocational training courses for enterprise development is tailored for farm managers, farm owners, civil servants..more..

2008 – KITA builds the capacity of SME’s under the Rural Enterprises Project of the GOG/IFAD/AfDB.

KITA provides training consultancy in building the capacity of Rural Small and Medium Scale Entperpreneurs in Managerial and Business Development Services provision under the Rural Enterprises Project (REP) of the Ministry of Trade and Industry of the government of Ghana. KITA’s role is to undertake community miobilization, train Rural SMEs in marketing, management and records keeping, enterpreneurship, business advocay, credit management, group dynamics, cassava and oil palm processing as well as other non-farm agro enterprises such as mushroom production and processing, snail farming, beekeeping, grasscutter rearing, soap making and pito brewing. This was to build the capacity of SME’s to become competitive and provide employable skills to the unemployed in the rural areas. KITA is currently still providing support services to SMEs under its “Center for Agribusiness and SME development” (CASMED) as part of its community development initiatives to create employment for rural youth and build the capacity of Farmer Based Organisations to be credit worthy.

December 2007 – KITA awarded the ‘Best Institution‘ by the The Ministry of Food and Agriculture - more

October 2007 – KITA continues to make great strides in imparting technical vocational education and training in the West African sub region - more

2004 – KITA initiates the National Youth Agricultural Cooperative Centers (NYACC) with the Ministry of Manpower Development, Youth and Employment MMYDE:

KITA provided consultancy services under the Skills Training Employment Placement (STEP) Program of the MMYDE to provide training and employable skills to unemployed youth in the northern sectors of Ghana. Through this project KITA introduced the National Youth Agricultural Cooperative Centers initiative as a center cooperative owned by the community for youth training, continuous vocational education and employment center where the youth undertakes production, marketing and revolving credit scheme to enhance their ability to be self sufficient and dependent. Youth undertakes activities such as mushroom production, snail rearing, arable farming, vegetable farming, rabbitry, among others to enhance their livelihood. KITA is looking for partners to sponsor this initiative to enhance competitive youth employment generation in the rural areas especially in the northern sector of the country.

NEW – For the latest photographs from KITA please see our new online photo album

Permanent link to this article: http://kita-ghana.org/blog/2010/12/12/welcome-to-kita/

Admissions Open for Diploma Courses in Agriculture

by Lovans

KITA – The institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kumasi is at the forefront of Professional, Tertiary, Technical and Vocational Agricultural education and training since 1984, offering a wide range of full time and part time courses for prospective and practicing farmers and agriculturalist.

COURSES OFFERED BY THE COLLEGE INCLUDE:

1. DIPLOMA IN TROPICAL AGRICULTURE, (DIPTA) – 3 YEARS

Entry Requirements: SSCE, WASSCE with 6 passes including English, Maths and Science, GCE ‘O’ level, Cert. A teachers, NVTI NCC, City and Guilds advanced, and MOFA Certificate in Agric.

Graduates Participate in National Service Scheme, Graduates are also able to enter the UNIVERSITIES in the second or third year based on their class.

2. CERTIFICATE IN GENERAL AGRICULTURE: 2 YEARS

3. NATIONAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE (NVTI) – Grade ONE and NCC = 2 years

4. Ghana Education Service – City & guilds Advanced = 2 Years

Entry requirements for certificate courses: NVTI Grade TWO and ONE, Farm institute Grade A, NACVET, WA/SSCEwith 4 PASSES including English, Maths and Science, GCE ‘O’ Level 4 passes. (Proceed to the Diploma with NCC and proceed to University)

5. SHORT CERTIFICATE COURSES in Poultry, Farm Management, Snail, Rabbitry, Grasscutter, Piggery, Horticulture and Landscape design, vegetables, Beekeeping, Turkey, Organic farming, Permaculture, Agribusiness, Entrepreneurship, Project proposal writing and Computer science.

Civil Servants who want to start their own agribusinesses can partake in any of the above courses and gain the technical skill, the business development skill and professional support to begin their own enterprises. KITA technical staff will be able to provide follow up consultancy after training to help participants set up their farms.

6. DISTANCE LEARNING AND CORRESPONDENCE COURSES for working Professionals, Public/Civil servants,TEACHERS, Police & Prison Officers, MOFA extension workers, etc in each of the Diploma, NVTI & Certificate and short courses.

Seminars and workshops in new technologies for farmers, youth and women and community groups

LIMITED SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESIDENTIAL (HOSTEL & BOARDING) FACILITIES AVAILABLE

CAREER PROGRESSION: Our programs have been running for 25 years and it is designed for people who want to take up careers in agriculture as Farm Owners/Managers, NGO/Bank Project officers, Veterinary officers, Extension workers, Agricultural consultants and Researchers and Agric Entrepreneurs.

Diploma graduates partake in the NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME, working mostly with MOFA, GES – teaching, NGOs, and other international Organizations. Most of our graduates from both Diploma and Certificate courses have WON BEST FARMER AWARDS, others have RECEIVED SCHOLARSHIPS TO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION both in Ghana and abroad. Others have received grants to start their own farms, NGOs.

We are pleased to bring our students in contact with EXPERIENCED TRAINERS drawn from the Universities, research Institutes, colleges, NGO,s Banks etc, who are recognized in their own fields of expertise and are able to deliver training of the highest caliber.

Admissions are open for enrollment in February for Senior High School graduates who want to take up agriculture as a career. See our admissions brochure download, complete and submit to us for immediate attention.

To download admission forms please click here:

http://kita-ghana.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ONLINE-ADMISSION-FORM-FOR-FEB-2012-OPEN.pdf

Trainees enjoying lectures

As a modest institution located in its new site, about 8 kilometres east of Kumasi and 3 kilometres (on map) from U.S.T., training is done in collaboration with a lot of institutions including Ghana Organic Agricultural Network (GOAN), the Research Institutions (CRI, SRI, ARI, FRI), it has the recognition of the Ministries of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), Education (MOE) and the Manpower Development and Employment (MMDE).

KITA has trained students from all over the world.

Training in KITA takes the following forms:

Permanent link to this article: http://kita-ghana.org/blog/2012/01/11/admissions-open-for-diploma-courses-in-college/

KITA trains Peace Corps Volunteers in Agroforestry and Alternative Livelihoods

by Lovans

The Peace Corps volunteers were trained in seed treatment, nursery management, gardening, mushroom production, beekeeping, rabbitry, grasscutter and snail rearing and agro-forestry technologies such as alley cropping, woodlots among others on the KITA campus at Domeabra Apromase in the Ejisu District.

Mr. Lovans Owusu-Takyi, Training Programs Coordinator for KITA and Trees for the Future Ghana urged the Peace Corps Volunteers for the Education Sector to establish schools Treepals environmental clubs and work with them to set up school gardens, plant trees and train them to be environmentally responsible. Mrs Mary Norah the APCD Associate Program Coordinating Director for the Education Sector said she will work with the Education volunteers to ensure environmental education is improved in schools in Ghana.

The Environment Sector Peace Corps Volunteers led by their APCD, Mr. Nicholas Nyale, will also be working with farmer groups and schools in rural communities to enhance food security and income generating projects among the farmers to improve thier livelihoods. Lovans Owusu-Takyi urged the volunteers to teach farmers to develop agroforestry technologies to solve environmental problems and improve soil fertility and organic farming practices on their farms.

The water and sanitation volunteers led by Mr. John Adepa the APCD, was trained at KITA on the 9th of December 2010 and provided moringa seeds in order to set up projects to improve nutrition and income generating projects with their women groups in the rural communities. Moringa has been known to have very useful nutrients that improve nutrition. The women groups will also use the moringa leaves for soap making, creams and other income generating projects

Lovans Owusu-Takyi, with support from Trees for the Future USA donated one watering can each as well as nursery tools and seeds of moringa, leuceana and albizia lebbek to each of the volunteers and thier counterparts to enable them to begin tree nurseries in their communities . The water and sanitation volunteers received mushroom bags each in order to promote mushroom production for income generation and nutrition development among the women groups.

The Peace Corps volunteers arrived in Ghana in June 2010 and have received training of various kinds in order to adapt well to the culture and gain the technical skills to empower people and improve the lives of the rural dwellers they have been posted to.

Permanent link to this article: http://kita-ghana.org/blog/2010/12/10/kita-trains-peace-corps-volunteers-in-agroforestry-and-alternative-livelihoods/

KITA Receives New MOFA Award for Best Institution

by Lovans

We are pleased to share the joy of our award with you as partners.

We are pleased to inform you that on December 3rd 2010, KITA received an award as the Best Institution from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture – MOFA once again at its 26th National Farmers Day celebration in the Ashanti region in recongition of KITA’s immense contribution to the development of Agriculture in Ghana. This is the second time since 2007 that KITA received such an award. This time we moved from the district level to the regional level. more

Permanent link to this article: http://kita-ghana.org/blog/2010/12/05/new-award-for-best-institution/

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Admissions Open for Diploma Courses in Agriculture

Welcome to KITA

KITA trains Peace Corps Volunteers in Agroforestry and Alternative Livelihoods

KITA Receives New MOFA Award for Best Institution

Welcome to KITA

Admissions Open for Diploma Courses in Agriculture

KITA trains Peace Corps Volunteers in Agroforestry and Alternative Livelihoods

KITA Receives New MOFA Award for Best Institution

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