This Ghanaian Entrepreneur Is Turning Sugarcane Wastes Into Organic Fertilizer, Meet Audrey S-Darko, Founder Of Sabon Sake

Audrey S-Darko is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sabon Sake.

She started her business while pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at the Ashesi University.

Sabon Sake is a green business startup which focuses on transforming agricultural waste into soil amendments that regenerate soil health as well as isolate carbon to help mitigate climate change.

This is in the quest to maximize crop yield to ensure food security in Ghana and Africa, while providing jobs and making profits.

Using biotechnology they developed a bio-compost fertilizer from sugarcane waste that could ensure better soil quality.

She founded the Sabon Sake project and has set up a small production facility to make the organic fertilizer.

Audrey got in touch with small farmers in the Volta Region who mainly grow sugarcane.

She started an organic farm and brought together a network of 30 sugarcane farmers to show them how to use the new fertilizer to increase crop yields.

In 2018, her business won the theme award for Zero Hunger at the Africa Regionals competition.

Source:Charles Ayitey|LinkedIn

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