A Better Cocoa Bean? Israel Launches Accelerator to Give Ghana's Farming Startups a High-Tech… – Ghana Visions

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Dried cocoa beans are packed in hessian sacks on a cocoa farm near Amankwakram in Western Ghana on the border with Ivory coast February 14, 2011. REUTERS/Hereward Holland
Before he became the poultry king of Ghana, Kwabena Darko was a young student in central Israel.
Hailing from a small village in Ghana’s southern Ashanti region, Darko won a scholarship in the late 1950s to study poultry science and agriculture at the Ruppin Institute, near the Israeli city of Netanya. By 1967, he had returned to his home country and left his family pasture to start Darko Farms, which has since grown to become a chicken-producing empire and one of the largest agricultural businesses in Ghana.

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