The Ghana Poultry Project (GPP), funded by the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA), in partnership with the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) intends to increase targeted sector commercial performance by building coordination between firms while promoting competitiveness for domestically produced poultry eggs.
Speaking at a forum on the theme ‘Stakeholders’...
Cocoa farmers across Ivory Coast - the world's biggest producer of the key ingredient for chocolate - are down in the dumps after prices for their commodity fell for the second year running.
Not so in M'Brimbo - a village in central Ivory Coast that 11 years ago became a...
…despite growing past all sectors
Even though agriculture has become the most thriving sector over the past one year due to the coronavirus pandemic’s impact, lending to the sector remains abysmal and pathetic compared to the others – indicating that banks still consider it too risky to fund.
The statistical...
CDC Group, the U.K. government’s development investment arm, is taking a step to help bridge what it estimates is a funding gap of as much as US$31 billion that Africa’s agriculture and food industry faces each year.
The 73-year-old institution is channeling US$100 million to small-holder African farmers through export...
The members of the Council of State have said they are in support of efforts to stop illegal mining activities which have led to the pollution of several river bodies and contributing sharply to deforestation in the country.
The Council in a meeting with the Minister of Lands and Natural...
The maiden edition of the Ghana Chicken Festival (GHACHICK) is set to come off on the 3rd of May 2021 at Coconut Grove Regency hotel, Accra.
The event which is designed to elicit interest in the consumption of poultry products will also help create sustainable awareness on the nutritional value...
The Market Oriented Agriculture Programme in North Western Ghana (MOAP NW) will host the second Agribusiness Fair and Conference from 19th to 20th May 2021 in Wa, Upper West Region. Implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, MOAP NW is jointly working and organizing this event with the Ministry...
…as inability to handle standards persists
Richard Twumasi-Ankrah, Director for Policy, Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, has indicated that smallholder farmers are losing significant amounts of money in their quest to trade on the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX) platform due to inability to meet...
“VALUE4HERConnect, Africa’s first agri-business intelligence platform aimed at facilitating growth and development of women owned agri-enterprises was launched in Accra by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) this week.
The platform seeks to expand women’s presence in markets where trade, access to new markets, nationally, regionally and...
The Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association (GHAPFA) has attributed the recent increase in egg prices to the high-cost feed used by the poultry farmers.
The president for the association, Mr. Michael Nyarko-Ampem stated that, the raw materials used in preparing the feed has surged by over a 100 percent.
“There was...