KITA is a non-profit premier tropical agricultural college in Ghana networking with local and global institutions to better the lives of rural farmers, unemployed youth, hungry and homeless families, women, aids victims and orphans, needy street children, the aged, and the disabled Through training, seminars and workshops, technology transfer, on-farm research, environmental conservation, volunteer exchange, seeds and food aid, input and clothing distribution and children’s sponsorship.For environmentally sustainable development, that enhances the local economy, the nation and the quality of life in Africa since 1984
The specific objectives include:
To enhance the transfer of modern agricultural
technology to rural farmers through workshops, seminars short courses, correspondence courses, and overseas training
To provide vocational technical agricultural training to the youth both literate and non literate
To protect the environment for increased agricultural productivity
To assist rural farmers to have links to credit and inspire confidence of financial institutions in rural agricultural credit delivery
To undertake farmer-based research to develop appropriate strategies for practicing farmers, both commercial and subsistence
To provide consultancy to prospective and practicing farmers and trainees to establish their own agricultural projects and identify market for their produce
To assist rural communities to draw their own village development plans based on their local resources, to improve upon their own lifestyles
To liaise with local and international institutions and organisations with similar
Membership & Visitors
- Current members: 20
- Open to new members
- Open to visitors