Report on the training of yam wholesalers, retailers and transporters at Agbogbloshie Yam Retailers Office on 8th September, 2014

Abstract

The CSIR-Food Research Institute in conjunction with Social Development and Improvement Agency (SODIA) organized a training workshop for yam wholesalers, retailers and transporters at the Yam Retailers’ Office at the Agbogbloshie Yam Market in Accra on 8th September, 2014. Participants were drawn from the Agbogbloshie Yam Market, Accra. This training was part of dissemination of technologies developed under the GRATITUDE Project conducted by the CSIR-FRI. The one day training workshop was attended by 61 participants drawn from the Agbogbloshie Yam Market. The training was to transfer three technologies developed under Work Package 2 of the GRATITUDE Project to yam wholesalers, retailers and transporters. These technologies were on how to effectively cure wounded yams, delay sprouting of stored yams and storage of yams in improved yam barn. The retailers, wholesalers and transporters were grateful for the training and agreed to practice the learned technologies for yam improvement in Ghana