Greater Accra Rabbit Farmers Association (GARFA)

The Greater Accra Rabbit Farmers Association (GARFA)presents to you another wonderful program with the theme Time with Farmer Brown. The program would be held on 4th December,2020 at the Farmer Brown's Integrated and Training Center, Kalabule ,Kasoa. The starting time is 10:00 am prompt till 1pm Members are to pay GH¢ 30.00 and GH¢40.00 for non GARFA members. Come and learn from the expert! GARFA!! `EaT HeAlThY EaT RaBbIt` *NOTE Registration ends on the *3rd December 2020.* _U can't afford to miss this great opportunity_. 🐰🐰🌈

My name is Ato Boateng. I am the founder of Animals Cottage ( Melwood Cuniculture) of Bawjiase in the Central region of Ghana. Melwood Cuniculture was started on 27th December, 2018 and the motivation was to make extra Income. (Based on my bad experience with crop farming) I am a Professional Nurse/Health Information officer, same time a broadcast Journalist. I am also into Event Hosting/M'ceeing. Currently my farm has a 60 Doe unit capacity. SUCCESS CHALKED Expansion with progression Challenges: Lack of committed Farm Hands Distance to the capital and the closest business district (Kasoa) FUTURE PLANS My future plan includes increasing my Doe unit and make Animals Cottage (Melwood Cuniculture), an ideal model for modern day rabbit farming

Presentation on Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHD). By Dr. Kwadwo Yeboah Boateng on 13th September, 2020 On GARFA WhatsApp Platform. Good evening farmers. Thanks for inviting me to your platform. Please accept my sympathies for the loss of your rabbits due to RHD Type Two. Now to the main issue. Causative Agent: Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus Clinical Signs: Incordination, convulsions, prostration, severe pain, blood discharge from the nostril and eyes, sudden death and terminal squeals followed rapidly by collapse and death. Transmission: Direct contact with infected animals as well as formites. Rabbits can acquire this disease through oral, nasal or eye route. Most or all excretions including urine, faeces and respiratory secretions contain the virus. Flies and other insects are very efficient mechanical vectors. NB. Although, viral replication does not occur in predators (e.g dogs) or scavengers (e.g vultures) , these animals can shed the virus in their faeces after eati...

 As part of the efforts of the Greater Accra Rabbit Farmers Association (GARFA) to educate its members, the executives of GARFA introduced a series of lectures on our WhatsApp platform. Below is an excerpt of one of the lectures delivered by Farmer David Agyinim Boateng a.k.a Rabbit Bawumia, the C.E.O of DavBoat Farms in the Eastern Region of Ghana. His presentation is centered on the importance of Records keeping in Rabbitry. Find below the presentation and do not forget to leave a comment after reading. Farmer DaveBoat is the man with the earpiece RECORDS TAKING IN RABBITRY Record keeping is a critical part of managing a rabbit farm due to the prolific nature of rabbits.  Depending on the size of your farm, you may find that you need to update your records a couple of times a week or even daily. These records may include, Production/Breeding Records, Weight Records, Financial Records, Health Records etc. This is advisable to have only 1 or 2 persons in charge of keeping the ...

 Farmer Brown is a household name in the rabbit industry not only Ghana but Africa as a whole. Most of us thought he farms only rabbit, Farmer Brown is a complete Farmer. Read the following work from Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity. The farmer Brown family garden is about 600m2. and is maintained by Adotei Brown, popularly known as Farmer Brown, his wife, and their two children. The garden is cultivated with peppers intercropped with noni plants, cocoyams, and cassava. Rabbit manure is used to fertilize the soil. Peppers harvested from the garden are sold on the market and also for home consumption. Excess peppers are sundried for preservation. The cocoyam leaves locally known as kontomire are harvested and used in the preparation of vegetable stew. This stew is usually eaten with the boiled tubers of the cocoyam. Farmer Brown plans to prepare noni juice from the noni plant when it starts fruiting. The juice will be sold to supplement the family income. The garden is also use...

 My name is Mohamed Afful, a Fashion designer and the founder of BT Farms located in Ashale Botwe.  BT Farms was established in 18th February,2018to produce and add value to especially meat rabbit before marketing it for consumption. I started rabbitry as a hobby and later realized I could turned it into an additional source of my income to consolidate my main source. SUCCEED CHALKED SO FAR All I can say is,am still in the process of implementing my idea and isha ALLAH, I believe I will get there in future.  CHALLENGES: Some of the challenges I have experienced include: 1. High mortality rate of bunnies,but now have been able to reduce it,it was hard in the beginning  because I had no idea about rabbitery.  2. The ability to formulate the right feed for my rabbits  3.The ability to get the right breeds for my farm. 4.Right medication chart  and drugs purposely made for rabbit.  FUTURE PLAN BT Farms medium term goal is to grow the farm from our cur...

 The Greater Accra Rabbit Farmers Association (GARFA) organized another Value Addition (VA) program at Linux Farms in Ashale Botwe near Adenta in Accra. Below are some pictures retrieved from members. We have a short video   GARFA Sharwama 2020

The records that the publicity committee received so far indicate that 5 of our members took award during the Farmers' Day celebration in their various district/Municipal/ Metropolitan Assemblies. Farmers' Day is a special day set aside by the Government of the Republic of Ghana to celebrate and award deserving farmers. The day is celebrated every first Friday in December, which is a holiday but this year because of December Presidential and Parliamentary Election the day was rather observed on the first Friday in November, 2020. The following farmers took award: 1. Mr James  Owusu Antwi of Akyedze farm (Overall Best Farmer), Atwima Mponua District Assembly.  2. Mr Harrison Addey of The rabbit masters Ltd.(1st runner-up), Adenta Municipal Assembly 3. Mr Bernard Larkai of bossmajor farms (Overall Best Farmer) East Ayawaso Municipal Assembly. 4.Mr. Maxwell Asare obuobi of Bobimax farms (Best Rabbit Farmer), Ga Central Municipal Assembly. We say 'ayeeko' (congratulations) ...

 The Greater Accra Rabbit Farmers' Association (GARFA) wishes to congratulate all Ghanaians especially Rabbit Farmers for their immerse contribution to the social economic development of Ghana. Ayeeko!