Chemico Limited, Ghana’s pioneer Agro-inputs company, has supported this year’s Farmers Day celebration with over GH¢400,000.
The company handed over a cheque for GH¢100,000 to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), and additionally presented a cash amount and agrochemical products valued at over GH¢300,000 to some Regional, Metropolitan, Municipal...
The Ghana Export-import Bank (GEXIM) has presented a tractor and its accessories to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) towards the upcoming National Farmers' Day celebrations.
The tractor, worth GH¢3,6200.00, is to be given to the 1st runner of this year’s national farmers awards. The gesture forms part of GEXIM's...
Olam Ghana, a wholly-owned subsidiary of leading food and agri-business Olam International, has launched its locally grown and sourced rice brand – Mama Gold, a premium jasmine rice – to bring more choices to consumers in Ghana.
Already a successful and established rice brand in Nigeria, Mama Gold will offer...
Ghanaian workers have reported shocking human rights abuses aboard Chinese-owned trawl vessels - from beatings to a lack of drinkable water or basic medicines, and punishing working hours.
This abuse of the crew goes hand-in-hand with threats, bribery of fisheries observers, and large-scale illegal fishing.
The testimonies, documented in a new...
Private sector actors in the oil palm value chain, when given the right knowledge and needed financial support, are able to influence policies that advance the development of the commodity in Ghana.
Over the few years, the oil palm sub-sector has grappled with the lack of a national standard for the...
Despite government’s flirtations with other modern-day endeavours, agriculture has retained its role as the undisputed essence of our local economy.
Indeed, agriculture is the pivot around which Ghana’s quest for economic transformation revolves - an assertion that many stakeholders take inspiration from in fashioning products, ideas and initiatives designed to...
With the setting-up of the Tree Crops Authority as part of government’s Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD) programme, it is noteworthy that one of the six earmarked tree crops under PERD - cashew - has been able to launch the Cashew Council of Ghana (CCG) to serve...
With support from the African Cashew Alliance (ACA), stakeholders in the cashew sector have launched the Cashew Council Ghana (CCG) to serve as the sector’s apex body in the country.
The CCG is made up of actors in the cashew value chain, and it will be a platform for cashew...
… as Rejuvenate & Ashanti Regional MoFA to use product on demo farms
The Ashanti Regional Department of Food and Agriculture is collaborating with Rejuvenate Gaia Global, licensed importers of Greenfert organic fertilizer, to embark on demonstration farms, using the company’s organic fertilizer to scale-up government’s ‘Planting for Food and...
A 39-year old Ghanaian farmer has broken a record by becoming the first indigenous commercial farmer with over 425 hectares of farmland in a single location of the country’s northern savannah ecological zone.
Isaac Papanko, CEO of Idan Agro Ventures Papanko, started off by farming maize on 8 hectares and...