Category: Meet the Farmer

Godfred Alimo is the Managing Director of JT farms located in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region of Ghana. In secondary School Godfred had a high affinity for fulfilling scriptures and was particularly taken by the verse in Genesis which says “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the […]

Mr. Seth Etse Akpaka is the CEO of Lovely Farms located in the Pokrom Valley area of the Akuapem South District of the Eastern Region in Ghana. Seth cultivates strictly Smooth Cayenne Pineapple and started supplying Blue Skies in 2007 with about a 500 fruits a week. He now supplies […]

We recently visited the Blue Skies Papaya farm to assess the crop and look at ways of improving the maturity levels at the factory and for whole fruit exports. The focus over the last year has been to grow an improved crop and we believe we have been very successful […]

Mr. Eugene Amadi-Atta is the Farm Manager of X-ray Mango Farms which is located in the Doryumu area of greater Accra in Ghana. Eugene has been working in the fruit industry since 1980 and through practical experience and training he has developed a huge amount of expertise in pineapple and […]

While I was recently visiting the Western Region of Ghana, I managed to meet with Abanga Asando, a young Coconut farmer who currently supplies over 45 tons of coconuts to Blue Skies each week. Abanga first started growing coconut with the Jomoro Group and became independent in 2011 after setting […]

I recently visited Egypt to meet melon growers. Egypt produces excellent melon for us in the important transition period of May and June when southern hemisphere crop is winding down and Mediterranean crop is starting up. Blue Skies Egypt has helped pioneer orange melon production for our fresh cut operation. […]

Cannan is a Coconut Farm situated in the Central Region of Ghana and has been supplying coconut to Blue Skies for over ten years. There are 19 coconut farmers at Cannan who all live at Vanderpuye village which is home to around 187 people, and is located within the farm. […]

Billy Gameti is a pineapple farmer with the Blue Skies farmer group. He started farming in 1995 while in his early twenties. At that time he had just one acre of pineapple but he was soon able to expand this to five acres after Blue Skies started their operations in […]

Joseph Kwesi Odzeyem is one of our most reliable and consistent Mango growers in the Blue Skies farmer group. He started commercial farming in 1972 with sugarcane and in 1984 he switched to food crop farming. Through the intervention of the Ministry of Agriculture he got involved in Seed Maize […]

Atta Boateng is a pineapple farmer at Zulu Farms in Ghana. He is fifty one years old and has been farming for sixteen years. He is married with two children and lives in the village of Opembo. Zulu farms has over 1,000 acres and produces MD2, Smooth Cayenne, Queen Victoria […]