FARMERS have been urged to adopt best practices in the application of crop care products on their farms.
The Technical Support and Development Manager of Golden Stork Limited, a registered importer and distributor of crop-care products, Mr Patrick Dewatre, who made the call, said poor application of the products could be harmful to the crops and the people who consume the farm products.
He was addressing about 60 participants across the country at a day’s workshop for its clients and distributors in Kumasi to showcase its products to the farming public, and to teach them the best application of its chemicals.
Golden Stork Ltd based in Tema is a subsidiary of the French company, SCPA Sivex International (SSI) in Paris, which operates in seven African countries including Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroun and Burkina Faso.
Mr Dewatre said farmers must always go for better results and they could do that when they adopted approved methods of farming.
‘To identify a product, look for the trademark, active ingredient, content and the type of formula and its origin because there are several imitated chemical products on the markets,” he said.
Currently, four of Golden Stork products on the Ghanaian market are insecticides, weed killers, fertilizer and pesticide which kill sucking pests like white flies, and scales and those in the soil such as termites and ants.
Other members of the company at the function were Mr Didier Gonsolin, Business Manager, (Agric Products), Messrs William Nuamah and Stephen Tour, both Agronomists (Fertilizers and Agro-chemicals respectively).
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