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...
If there is one good effect that COVID-19 could have on Ghanaian society, it is the possible disruption in supply of imported poultry products like chicken. This is as a result of the travel restrictions by different countries as containment measures for the virus. But could this be an...
The devastating impact of COVID-19 on the poultry sector, particularly market destruction continues to get worse in each passing day, resulting in egg glut across production areas like the Dormaa enclave in the Bono Region.
The consequential effects of COVID-19 pandemic in the country and its containment restrictive measures such...
The Eastern Regional Minister and Member of Parliament for Nkawkaw, Eric Kwakye Darfour has commended the Kete Krachi Timber Recovery Limited, a wholly owned Ghanaian company operating the Lake Volta timber concession recovery for introducing the Diver-based system of felling trees from the Lake in addition to the use...