The Ghana Trade and Livelihood Coalition (GTLC), which is a nation-wide agriculture trade policy advocacy and practice organization, has organized a 2-day trainer of trainers’ workshops for a total of 150 farmers in five districts in the country. This exercise forms parts of the Coalition’s entrepreneurial skills development agenda for small scale farmers. According to a statement issued in Accra, the training was aimed at empowering these farmers to be able to identify and utilize their innate skills and competencies while responding appropriately to government policy initiatives in the agriculture sector. Participants were taken through modern practices along the production chain, drawing critical relationship between current practices and what ought to be the best practice in order to achieve maximum yields and returns from their investments. The 10-day training workshop centered on effective planning, use of certified seeds, timely acquisition and appropriate application of fertilizer and chemicals as well as other inputs. These elements, among others, are considered as necessary conditions for successful production. According to the Coordinator of the Coalition, Ibrahim Akalbila, effective planning is viewed as a process that guarantees the deployment of scarce resources at areas where they are most needed. While committing to collective engagement with public and private sector institutions in an effort to improve farming operations, participants also committed to doing a number of things that are within their ambit to ensure that yields and quality of their produce are progressively enhanced and ultimately attract good market over time. It was during this training exercise, as well as previous hands-on surveys, that a defective knowledge on the part of farmers of the size of their farm lands was revealed, he said. Mr. Ibrahim said, amongst the participants - a representation of the Ghanaian farmer population - it was observed that a staggering 90% did not know their actual land sizes. For instance, Mr. Mensah Adusei of the Derma tomato cluster, indicated that a purported 28 acre piece of land, which was sold to him, later turned out to be 13.5 acres when it was measured using a global positioning system. It is in the light of this observation that the GTLC, he stated, calls on the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, through its extension agents, as a matter of urgency to intensify education and also facilitate a process that allows every farmer to know the actual size of his/her farm land before the beginning of every farming season. Mr. Akalbila observed that inappropriate land size has serious implications for cost of production, application of inputs, as well as quality and market of the produce. Consequently, the GTLC, Mr. Ibrahim stated, is committed to ensure that every member of the five-farmer clusters is able to state their land size before the next farming season.