Government must be looking at a more sustainable plan to entice the private sector to continue with inputs’ subsidy component in the implementation of the flagship programme ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ (PFJ), West Africa Head of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Foster Boateng, has...
OCP Africa Ghana, a subsidiary of OCP Group, has donated GH¢280,000 to the COVID-19 Public Trust Fund.
The donation will contribute to Ghana’s COVID-19 response by enabling the government to continue to support frontline workers and volunteers engaged in fighting the pandemic, as well as vulnerable people who have been...
He looks quite reserved yet is outspoken, but ‘softly’. He sat overlooking the direction of a group of locals walking toward the isolated private compound-house where the two tricycles had been readied for the morning’s departure to the farm, which is about 15 minutes-ride from our location; and while...
The Managing Director of Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), Dr. John Kofi Mensah, has said he believes with the bank’s commitment Ghana will become self-sufficient in poultry production by 2022.
Speaking at a poultry value chain stakeholders’ meeting, where a loan facility of GH¢23.2million was presented to six players in the...
Olam International, a leading global agribusiness and supply chain manager, in conjunction with the Singapore-based Temasek Foundation, today donated 100 Fortitude Testing Kits to the government of Ghana in support of its fight against spread of coronavirus.
The two organisations presented a total of 100 kits comprising the Fortune Kit...
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In between her shifts, Zimbabwean nurse Sinothando Mpofu used to go to Bulawayo’s open-air markets to buy tomatoes and cabbages for her family of nine - until the country’s coronavirus lockdown closed all stalls.
Mpofu worried about where she would get fresh food, until she saw a message in her...
The Women in Poultry Value Chain (WIPVaC) has called for the speedy implementation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Veterinary Pharmacy Protocol in the country.
The group, which is an umbrella organisation of women poultry value chain actors, believe that supporting the implementation of the ECOWAS Veterinary...
Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) which was started in 2017 is one of the five flagship programmes of the government of Ghana aimed at promoting food security and availability on the market, aside from providing job opportunities more especially for the teeming Ghanaian unemployed youth in agriculture and...
Kona Agro Processing Limited, an indigenous cashew processing company at Awisa near Wenchi in the Bono Region, has entered into a joint venture with Australian Dried Fruits and the Nuts Trading entity to scale up cashew processing in the country.
The transaction involves establishing a new 10,000 metric tonne (MT)...