Post by Ismail AbdulAzeez on Jun 4, 2007 21:34:51 GMT 1
Crazy for grasscutter
One of the perks of the job, Mr Ocansey says, is that there is always grasscutter meat in his fridge.
The lean meat can be eaten with fufu or pounded yam, served in okra soup or made into a meat pie.
For the true gourmet, the grass fermenting in the creature's intestines can be extracted to make soup.
 People feel easy to buy them here rather than from a poacher 
Grasscutter farmer Cephas Ababio
The farming may be new, but Ghanaians' taste for grasscutter is hallowed by tradition.
But the old ways of hunting the animals - by starting bushfires to scare them, and other kinds of bushmeat, out of their natural habitat - had prompted environmentalist concern.
"Ghanaians are crazy for bushmeat, they will hunt for bushmeat as long as there is some," says Rita Weidinger, who works for German development agency GTZ.
"So we asked ourselves: if we have this market demand, how can we satisfy it without destroying the environment?
"Grasscutter hunting is a lucrative business, so we need to provide alternatives or hunters will continue to exhaust grasscutters."
Read more about Grasscutter Farming at: www.thethyconsulting.com and www.thethyconsulting.com/forum
One of the perks of the job, Mr Ocansey says, is that there is always grasscutter meat in his fridge.
The lean meat can be eaten with fufu or pounded yam, served in okra soup or made into a meat pie.
For the true gourmet, the grass fermenting in the creature's intestines can be extracted to make soup.
 People feel easy to buy them here rather than from a poacher 
Grasscutter farmer Cephas Ababio
The farming may be new, but Ghanaians' taste for grasscutter is hallowed by tradition.
But the old ways of hunting the animals - by starting bushfires to scare them, and other kinds of bushmeat, out of their natural habitat - had prompted environmentalist concern.
"Ghanaians are crazy for bushmeat, they will hunt for bushmeat as long as there is some," says Rita Weidinger, who works for German development agency GTZ.
"So we asked ourselves: if we have this market demand, how can we satisfy it without destroying the environment?
"Grasscutter hunting is a lucrative business, so we need to provide alternatives or hunters will continue to exhaust grasscutters."
Read more about Grasscutter Farming at: www.thethyconsulting.com and www.thethyconsulting.com/forum
