Ghana Has Good Climate To Grow Apples – CRI Reveals

The statement indicated that the seedlings were generated from cuttings and all, but one of the plants got destroyed after the three years into the experiment.

Explaining further, it said the proponent of the initiative, Mr. Edward Akwasi Fosu, a technical assistant with a private firm in Antwerpen, Belgium, for the trial, collected soil samples from different temperate and tropical regions worldwide, including Ghana.

The idea was to germinate apple seeds.

His results revealed that it took four (4) days for seeds to germinate in the Ghanaian soils, while other soils required a minimum of ten (10) days for germination.

The statement said: “Fascinated by this, he increased efforts to grow the seedlings in Ghana. Therefore, ten (10) seedlings were brought into the country in 2016, and planted in a house at Atimatim-Taaboum.”

The trial location is on latitude 06o 46’ 447’’ N and longitude 001o 36’ 611’’ W at an altitude of 288.0m above sea level.