Our Journey
2018 - 2020
Farming in Africa started with a cattle farm in 2018 in Berekum Senase, in the Bono Region of Ghana.
The goal was to provide enough protein for the students to feed at the Semanhyia American School at Berekum Senase.
Evolving swiftly, we diversified into poultry farming, managing over 10,000 birds with precision.
In 2020, the ‘Farming In Africa’ YouTube channel was created to document our farming journey and to share information to other farmers as there was a noticeable lack of accessible agricultural knowledge, especially in livestock agribusiness. Today, the channel has over 63,000 subscribers, forming a supportive community eager to learn and share experiences, fostering agribusiness growth across Africa and beyond.
The interest in animal rearing evolved into goat farming after the COVID pandemic which saw the prices of feed for poultry skyrocket making the venture almost unsustainable.
2020 - 2022
Since 2022, we have successfully managed a goat farm of over 250 goats on our farm, which we converted into a Research, Learning, and Development Farm. It became popularly known as the Semanhyia L&D Farm.
We had students and other agricultural stakeholders who visited to gain practical knowledge on livestock farming.
Our vision to revolutionize livestock farming in Ghana, and especially West Africa by improving the breeds of goats has spurred us on to import good breeds of goats from South Africa.
Over the past few years, we have successfully imported over 500 exotic goats from South Africa into West Africa.
We can now transport them not only to Ghana and Nigeria but also to Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.
The goal is to be able to breed these exotic goats here in West Africa to improve our lightweight local West African dwarf goats and the Sahalian goats we have.
2022 - 2024
In 2024, a huge setback we encountered in Berekum Senase (SEMANHYIA FARMS IS NO MORE!!!😨😨😨) led us to establish a new Learning and development model farm in Suhum in the eastern region of Ghana. This new farm has rapidly become a beacon of undying hope and resilience in the face of the circumstances that caused its establishment. The Suhum Semanhyia Farm has embarked on projects such as Artificial insemination and other innovations that would greatly enhance the genetic breeds of livestock we have in West Africa. We have also expanded our operations and services to include replicating our model across all the 16 regions of Ghana, to practically demonstrate how to do livestock agribusiness right by focusing on what we term the ‘Five Fundamental Pillars of Livestock agribusiness’ which are
- Breeding/Genetics
- Nutrition
- Animal Health
- Farm Management
- Infrastructure
With our reputation as an authentic source of exotic breeds of goats in West Africa, we continually offer free livestock farming education on all our social media platforms, especially our YouTube channel, Farming In Africa.
