9 Years After Resigning As A Teaching Assistant He Now Owns A Million Dollar Food Processing Company
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- I remember vividly when I decided to come back home and begin this backyard farming. My parents were very angry at me, and even my friends laughed at me because they couldn’t understand why I would leave my job as a Teaching Assistant and come to the village to farm. However, I wanted to reduce unemployment and empower women in agriculture, which is evident because about 70% of our workers here are women. I also wanted to reduce the teeming number of teenage pregnancies here,” he noted.
With no prior knowledge of agriculture, Mr. Azumah had to rely on social media to self-educate himself on the subject of farming.
Mr. Azumah also shared with The Ghanaian Farmer how he lost over two acres of farm produce due to the unavailability of a ready market for his produce. “You know, I had to think of value addition when I lost two acres of my farm yields due to the lack of a market. I had to think of new strategies; that was when the idea of value addition came up. We then began processing our own produce into finished products, and that was how Vokia Foods started. We now process the grains we farm into finished and ready-to-use products like Hausa Koko, Tom Brown, corn grits (Ekoegbemi & Oblayo), as well as cassava flour. We are currently working with over fifty farmer groups who supply us with raw materials to meet our production capacity, even though we have our own farm,” Mr. Azumah explained.
Vokia Farms currently has about 30 employees, with some outsourced from other farms when the need arises. Also contributing to the success of Vokia Farms is the wife of the CEO, Madam Emmanuella Pi-Bansah, who is the director in charge of operations. She also sheds light on how Vokia Farms enforces strict health and safety compliance to meet Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) standards. “As an indigenous company, we are committed to promoting and advocating for the consumption of made-in-Ghana goods, so about 99% of all our raw and packaged materials are locally sourced. This is to limit imports and empower local factories while contributing to the local economy. We currently have our products in the Volta, Oti, and Greater regions. We are also looking to expanding our products to other parts of the country even though we have a huge market in Togo and some other countries.
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Journey of resilience. Bravo Mr. Azumah. 👏👏👏👏 knockout punch 🥊 like Azumah .
Welldon my brother you have a vision God bless 🙌 🙏
Very insightful. Agribusiness is the new normal. ❤❤❤
God blessed you Mr Azumah
Great content as always. Kudos🎉
Thank you so much 😀
Great
....it is great to stir up enthusiasm about agriculture and agri-business. However, when every single entrepreneur/business is labelled as a "million dollar" business, then the truth is being stretched quite a bit....
I totally agree
Amazing it is
Good evening my sister, I need your help with the contacts of the guy who is a cassava farmer. I am in South Africa, I need him to assist with guidance as a beginner of cassava farming.
Please do you train for pig farm
Enyonam is funny, don’t look at chest not 😂😂. Ghana Agro tourism.
Please I have vision to start a poultry farm and am looking for where I can get trained, so please incase you have any one am ready
Are you in Ghana
@theghanaianfarmer myself am not in Ghana right now but it's my brother I want to him for the training so that he can handle the poultry farm