Commercial Farming & Value-Added Services

GreenRut optimizes the use of machines for most of the commercial farming. This involves the use of modern inputs, such as seeds of high yielding variety, chemical fertilizers, insecticides, and pesticides, to raise and maintain productivity.

In addition to commercial grain and legume farming (Maize and Soya Beans), in the Northern Region, GreenRut is commencing commercial pepper farming in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region (within the Volta Delta), with a plan to introduce Okra in the medium term.

With the help of appropriate technologies, GreenRut adopts Modern efficient Mechanized farming techniques, to ensure an all-year-round farming cycle for sustainable agricultural development. This has ensured that GreenRut:

• Increases land productivity by facilitating timeliness and quality of cultivation.

• Support opportunities that relieve the burden of labour shortages local communities.

• Achieve projected targets, while improving people’s livelihoods within communities through employment and training on the use of agriculture machinery

For GreenRut, mechanization does not necessarily mean big investments in tractors and other machinery. But the use of appropriate power source for any operation depending on the work to be done and on who is performing it. Thus, level of mechanization meets our needs effectively and efficiently.

Women play an important role in many of our farming engagements with the communities.

To support an integrated range of agricultural value chain services, GreenRut works with Farmer Based Cooperatives and Organizations in the Northern Region, to engage in large scale threshing of maize and soya beans at the fall of every farming season.