Widespread soil acidity threatening farming and food security in Ghana – CSIR-SRI warns

“The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Soil Research Institute (CSIR-SRI) is tasked with ensuring agricultural productivity, and all we need is government support or partnership to enable us to go to the field to conduct trials on the fertilizers,” he said.

There is also low organic matter and low carbon content, among other challenges, so it has been a very difficult situation for us as a research institute to ensure the sustainable management of our soil resources for improved agricultural productivity,” he said.

Tay cautioned that continued underinvestment in agricultural research, combined with weak integration of scientific expertise into fertilizer policy, could undermine innovation, reduce productivity and threaten long-term food security.