Kiayayo

Everybody, including the President must pay utility bills – Kofi Kapito Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Consumer Protection (CPA), Kofi Kapito, is advocating that all must pay up their utility bills to enable service providers to function effectively and efficient…

Each year, Ghana is estimated to lose about 20 to 30% of cereals and legumes and about 20 to 50% of roots, tubers, fruits and vegetables, in storage, during transport, or at the market.
Reducing food losses and waste should be a major concern to the Ghana government. Calculating the value of wasted food in the year 2013. According to the food wastage report 2013, Ghana lost 3.2 million metric tons of food valued at $8.9 billion in 2013, which could have been more if food losses on Ghanaian farms were included. Distribution losses amounted to 1.7million tons, whiles retail and consumer losses are 578,000 and 946,000mt respectively. Using Ghana‘s population estimate of 25.91 million (GSS, 2012), the per capita retail value of total food wasted in Ghana is $342.67 per year. Team Kiayayo wishes to thank Kosmos Innovation Centre for the long nurturing and mentoring throughout the journey and for giving us the opportunity to show the way we intend to reduce food wastage and post-harvest losses in Ghana alone.

In the agricultural value chain, Kiayayo is the main neuron link connecting farmers and aggregators to truck drivers in a timely manner in other to reduce post-harvest losses. We are in the pipeline to save Ghana over $8.9 billion on food wastage every year. We are not doing this alone as we continue to work with Kosmos Innovation Center , Farmasyst Ghana, KuaniJom, Kaltivo, TechShelta, Faakolore, Fruitflour Ghana, Bolstaar, Feed Haven among others.