Founder and CEO of Fafape Ama Foe also known as Mushroom Queen GH has proposed that farming be taken seriously and professionally in Ghana.

Speaking on Prime Morning, the Mushroom Queen indicated that most farm produce becomes contaminated because farmers are unaware of the application of the raw materials involved in the process.

"We have a scale that we use in the measurement of the raw materials. We have a proportion of the sawdust I should take, rice brand…that is why you just don’t look at it on the internet.

"You need to get trained on how to do the right thing. So, we should be professional about agriculture and farming," she told Asieduwaa Akumia on Monday.

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She based her statement on the frequent calls she receives from startups who are frustrated with their challenges and want to give up.

Madam Madam Fafape also mentioned that persons who develop an interest in specific disciplines of agriculture should be trained in order to be well informed.

As an accountant by profession, she revealed that she veered off and studied mushroom farming professionally for two years to enable her to be knowledgeable about the nitty-gritty of the product.

She identified the gap and potential in mushrooms and abandoned her profession six years ago to enter the agriculture sector to respond to the growing demand of Ghanaians by establishing E90 Ghana Limited in 2015.

Despite the remarkable improvement over the years regarding output, Madam Fafape shared some challenges she encountered starting up as she was not properly trained in the field.

She said, "From the beginning, I had an entire 2,000 bags that I produced all going bad. There was no maturity; there were no mushrooms, and that can actually deter somebody from giving up."

But she picked up the skills by going in for training with other smaller-scale producers to start on a larger scale.

The CEO added that she grabbed an opportunity to satisfy mushroom lovers by starting with 10 bags after a long research about the product.

"When I bought 10 of the mature bags, the mushrooms started floating, and I sent them to the lecturers at the University of Ghana.

"They showed interest in it but didn’t know how to get fresh mushrooms in Ghana. So, I saw the gap and realised that indeed people want and prefer it, and I took it upon myself to make the food available in Ghana," she said.

Her firm has trained over 100 women in mushroom farming and is still open to help train more people who are interested in the sector to support the betterment of farming in the country.

E90 Ghana Limited is currently one of the leading producers of mushrooms in Ghana, located at Ogbodjo in the Greater Accra region.