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Prof. Festus Annor-Frempong
TAGDev Cordinator at University of CapeCoast
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Festus K. Annor-Frempong is an Associate Professor in Agricultural Extension Education in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, School of Agriculture, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is currently the Head of Department and manages the teaching, training and research activities in the Department. He has an oversight responsibility for running the Sasakawa Guest Centre facility that generates income to support teaching and research in the School of Agriculture. He is currently training graduate and undergraduate students in agricultural extension and education, project management, programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, advanced research methodology, organizational management and administration and applications of new and multimedia production for education. He has over 20 years teaching experience at the university level and has trained many graduate and undergraduate students. He has coordinated The “Supervised Enterprise Projects”. These projects use the experiential learning and action research principles to identify problems and introduce appropriate agricultural technologies and solutions to small-scale farmers in Ghana.
Due to the successes, the concept has been applied in over 25 programmes in nine African countries. He has consulted extensively for World Food Programme, USAID, FAO, JICA, IFFRI, Ghana poultry Project on agriculture, extension education, rural and community
development related projects. The researches have assessed the situation and needs for strengthening agricultural education, extension, training and development, support for communication and rural youth and adult programmes. He has served on a number of boards and steering committees in the University of Cape Coast