Morgan Farms CEO Rev. Obed Danquah Wins ‘Best Farmer’ In Central Region

Rev. Obed Danquah, Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Farms, has been adjudged the best farmer in Gomoa Central in the Central Region of Ghana.

He received the 2022 Best District Farmer in Gomoa Central for his outstanding work, diligence and contributions to the agricultural sector.

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Rev. Obed Danquah hails from Gomoa Abrekum near Apam. His family migrated to Gomoa Manso in Central Region where he has established Morgan International Community School.

Right from infancy, he has loved working in the farm. At the age of 11, he was into sponge business where roots of tree were processed into bathing sponges.

He later went into wood business and processed wood to sell from Akim Eshiem to Agona Swedru and Winneba.

He later left the shores of Ghana to Nigeria and wrote his Advanced Level of the West Africa Examination Council and subsequently left for the United Kingdom.

He further pursued various courses like Accountancy, Law, Business Administration, Business Executive Course as well as Data Processing Management Course.

During his time in Great Britain, Rev. Obed Danquah, among other businesses, run a business as a fishmonger and then introduced a butcher shop into his chain of businesses as well as grocery shop.

Rev. Obed Danquah went into a money transfer business in the mid 1990’s called Express Funds Money Transfer and later established an outlet in Ghana after obtaining licence from Bank of Ghana.

Express Funds became a household name in Ghana for over a decade. He also established Express Savings and Loans but sold it before Bank of Ghana’s shutdown of banks .

He also established Express Life Insurance Company and later transferred some shares to Leepfrog, a South African company, and together sold the company to now Prudential Life Insurance.

Rev. Obed Danquah is passionate about training the youth into entrepreneurship. Therefore, he founded Entrepreneurship Training Institute, now offering Bachelor Degrees in entrepreneurship, management and education.

Upon arrival from Great Britain to resettle in Ghana, he established Morgan Farms and was primarily into poultry, becoming one of the largest poultry farms in Ghana with over one hundred and sixty birds.

He won the best poultry farm  in Central Region.

In order to enhance his level of education, he went to study at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration ( GIMPA) for his MBA and afterwards went to study theology at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture for his Master of Arts (MA) in Mission, Gospel and Culture.

He also obtained a Master of Theology ( MTh).

In 2020, Rev. Obed Danquah took commercial interest into agriculture once again and this time into a relatively late scale farming of having 100 acres of coconut, 28 acres of cocoa amid plantain, cocoyam, lemon, cassava, corn etc.

He also has over 500 pigs and still growing.

Rev. Danquah believes that with most Ghanaians venturing into agriculture, Ghana will be less dependent on imported foods to help sustain the nation’s foreign exchange earnings and reserves.

Therefore, he calls on government to provide more incentives to the youth to motivate them go into agriculture for possible increase in the country’s export products.

Earning the Best Farmer of the Year 2022 award in Gomoa Central, Rev. Obed Danquah writes to raise awareness on the importance of agriculture.

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