Michael Bassey once said, “When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.” Mr. Solomon Kusi goes the extra mile by leveraging on that humble beginning, his originality and quality standard to achieve his dreams and aspirations.
Hailing from the Ashanti Region of Ghana, He has oversees a beautiful family; a wife and nine children. Mr. Kusi defined the saying, “everybody wants the platform but not the process”. He started life as a young man who completed secondary school with no funds for tertiary education. He resorted to learning how to drive and got himself a driving license to become a professional driver.
Just as every exuberant youth would desire, Mr. Solomon Kusi planned to travel outside to see for greener pastures. He taught that was his best shot at success and consequently invested all his sales from his driving business. He never succeeded at that as every attempt was liable to people duping him.
Moving on from the disappointment he came to the Cote’divoire border around 1990 where he served as a taxi driver. Along the way, he earned respect from the way he treated his customers. Due to that, someone introduced him to Ivorian importers. This ushered him into the importation of rice. He coordinated all rice imports into this country through the western corridor in the years 2005 to 2008.
After some clashes in that industry which took the late Prof. Evans Atta Mills to come to his rescue, he changed his line of work once again and resorted to farming in 2010. He began with rubber farming and other crops as well mainly tree crops. He collaborated with the Agriculture officers seeking advice from them every step of the way. The passion with which he worked defied all odds of failure and pushed through with every fibre of his being. At that moment he knew agriculture was the right and perfect industry to venture into it.
It is of no surprise that he has bagged awards of all sorts in relation to farming over the years. In 2015, He was adjourned as the District’s best aquaculture farmer, in 2018 he became the national best tree crop farmer and in 2020 he became the national best farmer. He didn’t end there but represented Ghana by emerging as Africa’s Best Farmer in 2021 awarded him by EMY Africa.
In a period of 10 years, he was able to cultivate 720 acres of rubber plantation and 318 of cocoa and other crops. Currently, he is building a cocoa drying house which is the first of its kind in the country and Africa as a whole.
He is currently known as a “guru” in the agriculture industry, he deals in cassava, plantain, tree crops, aquaculture and poultry and Every year he cultivates a minimum of 20 acres of cassava. He is partnering with Government on the one district one factory initiative. Expansively, he is working on a factory also that will supply animal feed and poultry feed extracted from cassava as he intends to go along the line of a commercial poultry farmer.
In the nearest future, he is planning on building a cassava processing starch factory to boost the agriculture sector as a whole. He has a contract with TIAST Group, an agricultural industrialization company specializing in cassava processing to enable him to build this factory.
Indeed, he is a man of vision. Mr. Solomon Kusi owns the leading school in the Jomoro municipality in the Western region of Ghana, an institution that is boosting the educational system greatly in that region.
He believes that Agriculture defines the country but there hasn’t been any great initiative to tap into the primitive agrarian sector of the country. He proposes an agriculture sector free from politics and if this can be done, he perceives a great nation with a working agriculture industry.
The benefits of the agriculture sector are massive according to him, with an expectant income of GHC 160,000 every month from 40-50 tons of rubber production, he will overly counsel everyone especially graduands to venture into agriculture. In his words “If somebody wants to invest, the best sector is the agriculture sector.”
Talk of a man with great vision, a focused mind and a determined spirit to achieve all that there is no matter how long it takes and I will introduce you to Africa’s best farmer, Mr. Solomon Kwadwo Kusi.
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