Walewale SHTS Launches School Farm Project to Boost Student Feeding and Promote Practical Skills

Walewale Senior High Technical School in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region has introduced a transformative initiative aimed at improving student nutrition while equipping learners with essential agricultural skills. The school has launched a school farm project to grow food that directly supports its feeding programme.

Located in Walewale, the school has mobilised both staff and students to cultivate crops on its available land, turning idle acres into productive farmland. This year, Walewale SHTS cultivated maize on 10 hectares and sweet pepper on one hectare, producing 70 bags of maize, according to staff members involved in the project.

The sweet pepper harvest has also been beneficial, with part of the produce sold to vendors to generate income and the rest used in preparing meals at the school’s dining hall. School authorities say the initiative is expected to expand next year with anticipated support from the Ministry of Agriculture.

Abdul Rahman Sumaila, a science teacher, described the project as a major boost to student welfare.
“We have harvested 70 bags of maize to boost student feeding. This initiative will improve student nutrition and teach them valuable agricultural skills,” he explained. “We still have unused land over there waiting for the next season.”

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The decision to start the farm was partly influenced by delays in food supplies from the National Buffer Stock Company. According to staff member Osman Tahiru, the school turned the challenge into an opportunity.

“We are all aware of the feeding challenges sometimes. Sometimes, the food is not forthcoming from Buffer Stock, and so management in its wisdom thought that we have some idle land. We have fallow land in this school… and we took advantage of that to use it for the school farm,” he said. “Our children will not suffer in such cases because they will have enough food from their own school farm.”

Headmaster Pastor Ibrahim Sebiyam reaffirmed the school’s commitment to sustaining the project for the benefit of students.
“The school will continue to make good use of the school farmland to add value to the meals provided to students,” he emphasised.

The Walewale SHTS school farm initiative stands as a practical model for enhancing nutrition, improving food security, and promoting hands-on agricultural learning in Ghana’s second-cycle institutions.

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