Farmers in the Bole district of the Savannah Region are to benefit from 200,000 cashew seedlings and a nursery to complement their normal production and boost plantations in the region.
The seedlings, when mature, will be distributed to farmers free of charge as part of government’s flagship policy Planting for...
Last year was the third-worst this century for tropical tree-loss, according to new data released Tuesday by Global Forest Watch - an online platform that provides data and tools for monitoring forests.
There is, however, a sliver of good news: the world’s most important cocoa-producing countries, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, showed signs...
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), a Farmer Based Organisation, has begun building the capacity of selected Agric Extension Officers across the country to understand the World Health Organisation (WHO) COVID-19 Safety Protocols and adopt the knowledge acquired for the purpose of educating farmers.
Amid COVID-19, the training is...
A total of 300,000 improved cashew seedlings are expected to be distributed freely to thousands of farmers in the Dormaa East District of the Bono Region by the end of 2020.
The exercise forms part of the implementation of government’s flagship programme ‘Planting for Export and Rural Development’ (PERD) which...
Addresses land litigation issues
Invest in agric-linked infrastructure
To make agriculture attractive to big investors, government must invest heavily in infrastructure that will facilitate farming activities and secure their investments, Director of the Institute of Social, Statistical and Economic Research of the University of Ghana, Professor Peter Quartey has...
Deputy Minister for Local Government, Ntim Fordjour, has paid a working visit to monitor the progress of work on government's rural development programme - Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD), undertaken in the Saboba district of the Northern Region.
Saboba district is among the 98 districts embarking on cashew...
As we try to protect the health and safety of citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is also a need to prepare for a hunger pandemic. In the past, many have died of hunger in many developing countries. The United Nations suggests that there is likelihood of shortages in...
Cargill has reiterated its commitment to a transparent and sustainable cocoa sector which improves the lives of farmers and their communities in the five origin countries where it directly sources cocoa; Ghana, Brazil, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire and Indonesia.
The highlights of latest efforts and progress made on this commitment are...
Three new trawlers have arrived in Ghana from China and been registered to the Ghanaian flag, despite a moratorium on new fishing vessels. Government’s own Fisheries Management Plan states that 48 trawlers are the most that the fishery can sustain, yet 76 trawlers were licenced at the end of...
…small scale agribusinesses suffered largest revenue shortfall
Agribusinesses, on average, have lost 61.2 percent of monthly revenues as a result of COVID-19, the Agribusiness Sector Survey Report 2020, authored by the Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG) - an apex body for coordinating agricultural sector players in the country - has...