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Star Agro Forestry Limited has commissioned a $2 million state-of-the-art Plant Tissue Culture (PTC) laboratory in the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality of Ashanti in Nkawie at Amangoase.
The Plant Tissue Culture (PTC) technology, an advanced technique dating back to the 1920s, involves the cultivation of plants through small tissue samples from healthy plants placed on a nutrient medium. This creates an artificial environment conducive to the growth of new plants, heralding a modern era for plant propagation.
Star Agro Forestry Limited is one of the beneficiary private sector companies which has been allocated degraded forest reserves to undertake commercial forest plantation development.
The company has been allocated over 1,500 hectares of degraded forest lands in the Offin Shelterbelt Forest Reserve in the Nkawie Forest District to undertake commercial forest plantation development.
Mr Owusu Bio was speaking at the commissioning of Star Agro Forestry’s Teak Tissue Culture Laboratory at Amangoase in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region.
He said the Government’s reforestation programme within the framework of the Ghana Forest Plantation Strategy and the most recent initiative, the Green Ghana Project, launched in 2021, had engendered enormous interest from Ghanaians and non-Ghanaian residents in Ghana.
So far, over 40 million tree seedlings of various species have been planted across the nation during the first three editions of the Green Ghana Day.
Dr. Prosper Mensah, an engineer with the Wood Industry and Utilisation Division, has made a case with empirical evidence that planting the right trees at the right place in cities and urban areas has an enormous economic benefit.
He said it also had social, environmental, and aesthetic benefits directly linked to sustainable development. According to him, Ghana has demonstrated great ambition to plant trees over the years but what is lacking is adequate planning, consultation, assessment, stewardship and monitoring and evaluation after planting
Tissue culture involves the production of genetically identical plant progeny through the cloning of a vegetative tissue or organ of the parent plant on a nutrient medium containing growth regulators under sterile conditions.
Amangoase, a town in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region witnessed the commissioning of a state–of–the–art facility last Tuesday. This development was engineered by Star Agro Forestry Ghana Limited, a commercial forest plantation developer. This Tissue Culture Laboratory is designed to bolster the agriculture and plantation industry in Ghana. The focus is to conduct in-depth research into high-demand crops to strategically meet the needs of the forestry and agriculture sectors.
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