Farm Masters Africa Ltd signed a MoU with Mottech Water Management PTY Limited during the GHrow-IL Agritech summit on the 4th of June 2019, in Accra. The MoU was signed by Mr. Anthony S. K. Morrison, the CEO of Farm Masters Africa Ltd who doubles as the CEO of the Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG) and Mr. Bradley Chetty, the head of Marketing in Africa for Mottech Water Management PTY.
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Farm Masters Africa Limited is a highly motivated agricultural entity with the vision to be the hub of contemporary agricultural practices, agro market research, value chain enhancement and the identification, staffing and capacity building of the sector’s key stakeholders. Their mission is to become the bedrock of stakeholders interests in agribusiness in adoption of appropriate technology to agricultural challenges, consistently create agricultural value of substance and improve agric project management.
Farm Masters Africa Limited believes that the basic challenge inherent in the seemingly endless list of setbacks in the agricultural sector is due to the ill-prepared and ill-equipped state of enthusiastic investors in agriculture prior to their untimely engagement in the sector. This is the gap Farm Master Africa Ltd seeks to bridge through the best farm management systems, current technology and irrigation services, livestocks and aquaculture, building services, and farm media services.
Mr. Anthony S. K. Morrison as described by Mottech SA is a highly proactive attorney, chief lobbyist and an expert in food security, agriculture and nutrition. His expertise ranges from agribusiness strategies to development, financial and gender equality development. Evidently one of the sound voices in Ghana’s agribusiness space.
“Mr. Anthony Morrison currently serves as acting chairman of the Agricultural Trade Bureau of West Africa, which has made Agribusiness through economic cooperation, regional integration agriculture and the General Director of the Chamber of Commerce of Gabariana Ghana (member of the Chambers of the World’s Enaya Global Enclave), Ghana’s leading private sector agribusiness sector providing support and policy support to Ghana’s agribusiness space. A highly proactive attorney, a chief lobbyist and an expert in food security, agriculture and nutrition, his expertise ranges from agribusiness strategies to development, financial and gender policy development including”, Mr. Mr. Bradley Chetty, Operations Manager of Mottech SA.
Speaking to Agric Today Media, Mr. Morrison revealed some of the things we should expect from the MoU. “This MoU is to bring to the West Africa landscape, the expertise and technologies available in the current irrigation systems in the world. This will help increase our crop yield and reduce water used to irrigate per hectare substantially by 70% while maintaining high quality. It will use precision irrigation which will induce a lot of water conservation on the part of the farmer and the country at large which will provide water for other areas such as home, industry and other commercial activities”, he said.
He also highlighted that this MoU will create a lot of jobs in the irrigation industry through technical capacity building to youth who will be able to set up these irrigation systems and maintain them. “Overall, we are creating wealth for the country and those participating in the industry” he hinted. He stated that these technologies would be custom designed to meet the needs of the farmer as this will help farmers upscale as and when they want to.
Mottech, a member of the MTI Group, is a worldwide master distributor of Motorola’s innovative, proven and reliable IRRInet platform. Mottech provides comprehensive and professional water management systems for Agricultural Irrigation, Municipal Turf & Landscape Irrigation, and Water Distribution applications.
