Greater Accra Rabbit Farmers Association (GARFA)

 Greater Accra Rabbit Farmers Association (GARFA) is registered as Company limited by Guarantee at the Registrar General in 2019. A Group Picture of GARFA Members After A Training It is an association of rabbit commercial Farmers in the Greater Accra region and beyond. OUR OBJECTIVES: Our objectives include the following. 🐰To introduce and encourage Farmers to use improved breeding stock 🐰 Exposed members to the use of well formulated feed that will enhance the business of the rabbit farmers  🐰Opening of marketing avenues for rabbit farmers especially for our members  🐰Training and dissemination of information on current farming practices to meet international standards 🐰 To develop the rabbit value chain OUR ACHIEVEMENT  Our achievements within a year include: 1. Successfully registered as company limited by guarantee 2.Trained over 50 Rabbit farmers on Value Addition (V.A) 3. Minimised the common cry of there is no market.  4. Allocated mentor to young fa...

Michael Codjoe is my name a member of GARFA -Greater Accra Rabbit Farmers Association- and the founder of (Name of farm) located at Legon in Accra. Aside rabbitry, I also do other stuff like snail, grasscutter and mango farming, and ICT. I first ventured into rabbit farming about twenty (25) years ago when I was in Secondary School. Around that time I did not have any training in farming. It was just a hobby with no profit motive. My Current business started three years ago. Doe Unit I started 3 years ago and currently have a 26 Doe Unit backyard farm. My motivation for Venturing Into Rabbit Farming is for the fact that rabbitry fetches a lot of returns apart from the love for farming that I do have. Businesses 1. I presently sell breeding stock and dressed rabbits. 2. I buy and sell rabbit urine and manure. 3. Design and install J Feeders 4. Sell and Install Nipple watering system Challenges 1. I initially had issues with Cocci in 2019 and bloat in 2020. But these challenges have been...

Rabbit Masters is a household name in the Rabbit industry in Ghana. The C.E.O of the Masters, is in the person of Mr Harrison Addy a.k.a The Rabbit People (TRP), as part of his contribution of encouraging the New comers to up their games, gave the following advise to the farmers. 1. Good record keeping. 2. Weekly stock taking. 3. Weekly reviews 4. Keeping good record of casualties. 5. Take picture of any dead rabbit before disposal.: Some years back my Rabbits dies only on Sundays when am busy in church. I used to complain that my Rabbits only dies on Sundays until my Bishop advise me to demand for pictures. 6. Find a faithful person. 7. Be nice to your employees: Whenever I am privileged to work from any of my farms my employees there are always happy because their lunch are secure. Just be nice to them . The yet to be married Rabbit Masters said if the above is followed religiously we would go to places. Do you have more advise? Mr Reader!

 Hello! My name is Wumtea AbdulRazak, also known as Naanuna or Golden, the founder of Our Rabbit Farm, located in Weija in the Greater Accra region of Ghana. I am an accountant by profession. I started rabbitry in 2018 with 3 does (female) and a buck (male). I had the inspiration to start animal farming from two special people in my life. Abdul Salaam Fuseini (C.E.O of Mbë Suglo Rabbit, East Legon), he made rabbitry 'sexy'. His branding was on point. My earlier fear was whether there is market for rabbit, because then I thought the meat was unpopular, but because Mbë Suglo is practising value Addition (VA), I was inspired and assured that demand outweigh supply. Mr Lewis Emmanuel Tenkorang (C.E.O of X farms, Weija) actually set me up. Mentored me from scratch to date.  Alhamdulilah! I started with 4 rabbits, since then I do not remembered buying even bunny but today I had more than 80 stock of rabbits. I have sold more than 80 meat rabbits and 20 to other Farmers for breeding....

 29th August, 2020 would always be a memorable day in the rabbit industry in Ghana, because that was when a free workshop was organized for both GARFA members and the general public. The workshop was funded by the donations received from the Greater Accra Farmers Association ( GARFA) members. The resource person was Mr Harrison Addy (C.E.O of The Rabbit Masters). The program was held at the Agromac Farms premises. Below are some pictures for your viewing pleasure. Mr Harrison teaching during the event. Picture insert: Mr Wumtea demonstrating what he learned meanwhile GARFA President and Organizer were keenly observing.  Picture insert: Some participants demonstrating Picture insert: A group photography of participants. Picture insert: The event flyer

 What is *VA aka Value Addition*? VA means transforming  a product to take a new look different from its raw state. In simple terms, you could look at VA as adding a special or unique feature to a product. By giving a product a name increases how valuable that product is.  For example one can find an unbranded smoked rabbit on the local market and a branded one such as Rabbit Masters. WHAT  ARE THE IMPORTANCE OF VA IN RABBIT FARMING? Though rabbits are beautiful in nature and seen by many as could be pets, just a handful will consider them as such because the African blood doesn't take delight in such nonsense. Therefore we will overlook value addition in the pet industry and concentrate on the food industry since it has the highest dailytial of reducing rabbit population daily in millions by means of slaughtering. One of the major importance of value addition, is to make a product stand out tall from  it's competitors in terms of possessing a carefully crafted ...