The third (3rd) edition of Women in Food and Agricultural Leadership Training Forum (WOFAGRIC) and Gold in The Soil Awards, powered by Agrihouse Foundation, has received 131 nominations of deserving women farmers and agribusinesses.
The event is set to take place from 23rd to 24th June 2021 at the Akayet...
The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has been awarded the One District, One Factory (1D1F) Financial Service Provider of the Year at the 2021 Ghana Manufacturing Awards (GMA), held at the Kempinski Hotel, Gold Coast City in Accra.
The honour affirms the Bank’s support to businesses under the government’s flagship industrialisation...
The new ‘Cadbury Farmer Resilience Fund’ designed to protect cocoa farmer livelihoods during the COVID-19 pandemic is providing grants that will empower thousands of women farmers to start small businesses and earn a decent living.
Emerging from an existing partnership between Mondelēz International and Fairtrade under the Climate Change and...
Nine Ghanaian cocoa farming unions have been awarded grants to invest in new climate-smart small businesses on behalf of their members, as part of a scheme implemented by Fairtrade Foundation.
Each new enterprise aims to pilot new ways for cocoa farmers to earn extra money to supplement their incomes and,...
The Market Oriented Agriculture Programme in North Western Ghana (MOAP NW) has organised the 2nd Agribusiness Fair and Conference in Wa under the theme, “Boosting the Agribusiness Potential of North Western Ghana”.
MOAP NW is one of the key pillars of the EU Ghana Agriculture Programme (EU-GAP). The European Union...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) hopes to ride on the back of success from its improved yields initiatives to attract the youth into cocoa farming. It believes interventions rolled out in the past few years are resulting in the reversal of cocoa farms depleting across the country.
Speaking at the...
The cashew processing industry has a huge potential to add significant value to African economies by creating more jobs and wealth through expanding the domestic processing of raw cashew nuts (RCA), the Competitive Cashew Initiative(GIZ/ComCashew) has said,
According to ComCashew, an increase in local cashew processing could among other things...
The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyei Akoto has asked players in the agriculture sector especially farmers to embrace technology in the operation to increase the yield in a less stressful manner and help accelerate nation’s economic growth.
According to him, the use of technology will greatly lead...
The Italian Trade Agency (ITA) today launched the Italy-Ghana Agribusiness Digital Lab project to bring together Italian and Ghanaian companies in the agribusiness sector to develop mutually beneficial business relationships.
The project will introduce Italian expertise and technology in the agribusiness value chain to the Ghanaian agribusiness market, with a focus on...
The Ghana Rice Inter-Professional Body (GRIB) has expressed strong skepticism about government’s projection that the nation would attain rice self-sufficiency by 2023. GRIB is of the conviction that, the current state of rice production – from seed planting to the final product – is not one that supports the...