Rural Champions

Mr. Richardson is Vice President of Ebony Park Agro Cooperative and has extensive knowledge of Good Agricultural Practices and is involved in the intensive production of horticultural products. He specialises in tomato, red pepper, sweet potato, melon, cassava and chives. Over the last few years it has increased the volume of land under production and its productivity. It currently employs two people and permanently delivers its production to the agro-industry.

• Agricultural planning.
• Transfer of knowledge associated with good agricultural practices.
• Intensive production of horticultural products.

• Experience in good agronomic practices for the development of cash crops such as tomato, pepper, cassava, sweet potato.
• Use of agricultural technologies: drip irrigation, fertigation and mulching.
• Experience in individual and collective sales through the cooperative.
• Development of training processes and agricultural advice.

• Management of production records and costs.
• Use of data recording.
• Application of agricultural technologies for irrigation.

• Agriculture, College of Agriculture.
• Former advisor to the Rural Agricultural Development Authority.