The crops are grown here.
The value leaves.

We are building the drying, milling, training and enterprise system that keeps the value in the community that produced it.

Agriculture is the backbone.
It needs a working chain around it.

Climate-smart practice, on-site processing, skills and enterprise — designed as one system rather than four separate projects.........

From land...
to livelihoods.

Young people and women are not beneficiaries of this project. They are the farmers, processors, founders and leaders inside it.......

 Climate-Smart Agriculture
 40+ acres in phased development
 550 contracted farmers by year five
 Youth skills academy
 Women's enterprise centre
 Solar-powered processing
 Wumenu · Ho Municipality · Ghana
 Climate-Smart Agriculture
 40+ acres in phased development
 550 contracted farmers by year five
 Youth skills academy
 Women's enterprise centre
 Solar-powered processing
 Wumenu · Ho Municipality · Ghana
550+
Smallholder farmers contracted
+60%
Average household income increase
1,200+
Young people trained
200+
Permanent jobs, 55% held by women
The MontAche site at Wumenu, Volta Region
40+
Acres in development
Where agriculture meets innovation

A hub, not just a farm

MontAche Green Innovation Hub is a community-focused agricultural and innovation initiative established to transform productive land into a platform for food production, green enterprise, skills development and employment creation.

Based around Wumenu in the Ho area of Ghana's Volta Region, we are developing a model that combines climate-smart agriculture with innovation, entrepreneurship, technology and community development.

Our long-term vision is an integrated green innovation ecosystem where young people and women can access land, knowledge, technology, training, mentorship and the opportunity to build sustainable livelihoods........

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What we do

Six things, one system

Each part of the hub exists because the others need it. Farming without processing leaves the value elsewhere; processing without training leaves the jobs unfilled.

Climate-smart agriculture

Climate-Smart Agriculture

Maize, vegetables, ginger, coconut and fruit trees grown with irrigation, soil and water conservation, agroforestry and climate-resilient practice.

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Green innovation

Green Innovation

Solar-powered processing, smart irrigation, water harvesting, waste-to-value and digital farming tools practical solutions to real problems.

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Youth and women

Youth & Women's Empowerment

Pathways into agriculture, agribusiness, technology, processing and leadership moving people from dependency to opportunity to enterprise.

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Agribusiness and entrepreneurship

Agribusiness & Entrepreneurship

Business planning, market linkages, product development, mentorship and incubation that turn agricultural ideas into viable enterprises.

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Training and capacity building

Training & Capacity Building

A practical learning environment where farmers, entrepreneurs, students and community members learn by doing on real crops and real equipment.

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Agro-processing and value addition

Agro-Processing & Value Addition

Drying, milling, packing and branding on site so the margin stays local instead of leaving with the raw crop.

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The value chain

Where a cedi of ginger goes

A farmer sells fresh at the farmgate, because there is nowhere nearby to dry, mill or package it. Every step after that happens elsewhere and so does every cedi of the margin.

TodaySold fresh
Farmer
Drying
Milling
Packing & brand

The farmer keeps the first slice. The rest is captured downstream, often outside Ghana.

With MontAcheProcessed locally
Farmer
Drying
Milling
Packing & brand

A contracted price agreed before planting, and every stage after it performed on site.

The farmer earns more. The processing wages are paid locally. And the surplus from the finished product funds the training, the extension work and the women's enterprise centre so the hub eventually pays for itself......

Our approach

Identify. Learn. Innovate. Implement . Scale.

We use a practical ecosystem approach five steps, repeated for every part of the hub. Hover any step to bring it forward.

01

Identify

We identify real challenges facing farmers, young people, women and communities.

02

Learn

We bring together knowledge, local experience and technical expertise.

03

Innovate

We develop and test practical solutions.

04

Implement

We turn promising ideas into real projects and enterprises.

05

Scale

We document successful models and create pathways for wider adoption.

“A crop that can't wait is a crop you sell on someone else's terms.” The problem MontAche exists to solve
Our commitment

Working toward the Sustainable Development Goals

Fifteen of the seventeen goals are built into the design of the hub. Follow the trunk down each goal is a node growing on it.

  Measured goals carry a specific target attached. Supported goals are contributed to through the design of the hub.

Hub notes

Updates from the ground

Farm updates, innovation projects, training and community activity as the hub is built.

Breaking ground at Wumenu
Site progress
 15 January 2026  ·   MontAche

Breaking ground at Wumenu

Land preparation has started at Wumenu in the Ho Municipality, with the first access and production zones marked out across the site.

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What the academy will teach
Youth & skills
 18 November 2025  ·   MontAche

What the academy will teach

The skills academy is being designed around work that already exists on the site, so that training leads somewhere. Agronomy, machinery, food processing, drone operation and agribusiness are the first areas planned.

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Solar, water and the case for simple technology
Innovation
 21 October 2025  ·   MontAche

Solar, water and the case for simple technology

Unreliable grid power and diesel dependency quietly raise the cost of every processing and cold-storage operation in the region. That cost is what makes local processing hard to sustain.

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Get in touch

Let's grow the future together.

Whether you want to partner, invest, collaborate, support our agricultural development or simply learn more about MontAche, we would love to hear from you.

Where we areWumenu, Ho Municipality, Volta Region, Ghana
Email usinfo@montachegih.org
Call us233-243-5678
Partners & fundersRequest the funding proposal

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