The tumultuous impact of COVID-19 around the world is no longer news. A new decade that began with overwhelming optimism soon dissipated in the face of socio-economic desolation visited upon the world by the pandemic.
The consequences of the pandemic, according to local economists, have left Ghana’s socio-economic foundation wobbly...
…describes current approach as flawed
The General Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU) is calling on government to change the implementation model of the One Village, One Dam programme, noting that the current system of constructing small dams in farming villages has failed to deliver on irrigating farms all year round.
Edward Kawere,...
With the requirements for accessing government’s stimulus package - Coronavirus Alleviation Programme - automatically disqualifying smallholder farmers because they do not register their activities or keep records of transactions, and faced with various challenges including disruptions in market linkages and production processes due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the...
Cultivation of poor planting materials and wrong cultural farming practices have been identified as major challenges accounting for low cashew productivity among local farmers.
In recent times, cashew has been identified as a new ‘gold’ for farmers, especially among those in the savannah-transition zone. It has triggered massive cultivation across...
For the third consecutive time, quarterly GDP figures from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) indicate that the agriculture sector has outpaced the industrial sector in growth, making it the first time in recent history, at least since rebasing of the economy in 2013, even though the sector is one...
Food Outlook report assesses global supply and demand for major food commodities
Growing rice in the Philippines.
Food markets will face many more months of uncertainty due to COVID-19, but the agri-food sector is likely to show more resilience to the pandemic crisis than other sectors, according to a new report...
Ghanaian cocoa farmer cooperative, Kuapa Kooko, has lost 80 percent of its majority shares in British chocolate brand, Divine Chocolate, to a strategic investor. Kuapa Kooko Cooperative, which hitherto owned 45% majority shares in the company, would now hold only 20% ownership as Divine Chocolate Limited is sold to a...
The pioneering initiative to train the next generation of cocoa farmers, is expected to bring a significant contribution to the country’s cocoa production, as a total of over 12,000 youth have been trained to venture into cocoa farming and its related businesses, by the MASO programme, being undertaken by...
Green Gold Farms Ghana, an Accra-based agribusiness, has secured lands at Sekpe, in the Mion Districts in the Northern Region for soybean production.
The a 50-year lease of 40,000 acres of land released by the chief and traditional leaders of Sekpe at an estimated value of US$20 million is to ensure...
Cultivation of poor planting materials and wrong cultural farming practices have been identified as major challenges accounting for low cashew productivity among local farmers.
In recent times, cashew has been identified as a new ‘gold’ for farmers, especially among those in the savannah-transition zone. It has triggered massive cultivation across...