{"id":12,"date":"2017-08-01T06:43:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T06:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2018-06-15T00:00:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T00:00:30","slug":"the-college","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/the-college\/","title":{"rendered":"The College"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/oac_logo-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/oac_logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/oac_logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/oac_logo.png 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ohawu Agricultural College\u00a0 (OAC) was established in 1964 by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to programs and courses to develop middle level manpower for the agricultural sector. The College is the only accredited diploma awarding agricultural college in the Volta region of Ghana. The College has institutional affiliation with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucc.edu.gh\/\"> University of Cape Coast<\/a> to run a <a href=\"https:\/\/ucc.edu.gh\/content\/ohawu-agric-college\">3-year Diploma in General Agriculture program<\/a>. The College also runs a 2-year Certificate in General Agriculture program under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.<\/p>\n<h2>Mission<\/h2>\n<p>To produce competent agricultural professionals with an entrepreneurial mindset and attitude.<\/p>\n<h2>Vision<\/h2>\n<p>To be the preferred choice of industry and students for agricultural competency based education and training that meets the standards of academia, needs of students and demands of agricultural enterprises in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Our courses and programs are structured with a lot of practical learning activities designed to equip graduates with skills appropriate for today\u2019s agricultural enterprises.<\/p>\n<h2>Partnerships<\/h2>\n<p>We run a course in Greenhouse Technology at the Greenhouse Capacity Building and Training Center (GCBTC), Dawhenya in collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agritopgh.com\">Agritop<\/a>. This course equips our graduates with skills in the production of vegetables using greenhouses suitable for the tropical environment of Ghana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohawu Agricultural College\u00a0 (OAC) was established in 1964 by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to programs and courses to develop middle level manpower for the agricultural sector. The College is the only accredited diploma awarding agricultural college in the Volta region of Ghana. The College has institutional affiliation with the University of Cape Coast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-default.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oac.edu.gh\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}