A young Ghanaian teacher and farmer who is impacting the economy by producing a multi-purpose edible insecticide oil from fever grass (Citronella oil) has broken new grounds with the addition of new bi-products.

After he graduated from university, Vozbeth Kofi Azumah was reluctant to tell anyone – even his mother – what he planned to do for a living.

For Shadrack Frimpong, 28, finding himself a recipient of a 2019 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award "feels pretty crazy," he says, "because here we have a kid who grew up in the middle of the forest in rural Ghana being compared to someone who really was the greatest of all time."

Several commercial mango farmers in Kintampo -in Ghana’s Bono Region- say mango cultivation has the potential to transform the nation’s economy. They said despite the economic potential of the industry, government was prioritising other sectors such as cashew and cocoa cultivation whilst relegating mango farming to the background.