In 2013, IWAD Ghana, a subsidiary of the African Tiger Holding , started an agricultural project located in Yagaba that would benefit the farming communities of Northern Ghana. Farmland spanning 1000 acres was cultivated with the aim of being an area that as many as 600 farmers could farm on. The project is a large scale irrigation system that was powered by diesel generators, which made it very expensive to run the project, and in a manner unfriendly to the environment. In an effort to reduce operational cost through the reduction of energy costs for irrigation, the USAID PICA project was initiated in 2016. IWAD Ghana after competitive tendering selected Dutch & Co to design, install and construct a hybrid energy system.
