The price of imported fresh tomatoes has sharply increased, as traders now have to travel up north to neighbouring Burkina Faso to buy fresh tomatoes for sale on the local market.
This perennial shortage of the vegetable and reliance on Ghana’s northern neighbour to meet local demand for the commodity...
Local producers can’t meet demand
Low investment contains growth
The Ashanti Regional Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Rev. John Manu, has called for investment in research to identify products that could be commercialised from oil palm, as the demand for the cash crop and allied...
… as he launches 8th Annual Pre-Harvest Agribusiness Conference and Exhibition
The Minister of State for Agriculture, Dr. Nurah Gyiele, has said there is a need to increase both public and private sector investments in the agriculture sector if the country is to sustain growth of the sector - which...
Government’s flagship agriculture programme Planting for food and Jobs is designed to transform the agricultural sector and make it a more productive to ensure food self-sufficiency, as well as providing raw material to increase agro-processing for better returns.
That’s all well and good, but a key sub-sector in agriculture is...
Players in the livestock sector, which has been one of the major employable sectors of the economy, are calling on government to step in and save it from imminent collapse, as it is reported that 95 percent of the livestock consumed is imported.
Their call comes at a time when...
Low cocoa prices are driving some farmers out of the sector, Joseph Boahen Aidoo-chief executive of the Ghana Cocoa Board, said on Monday
Farmers are moving into growing cashew, farming rubber and illegal mining, Aidoo told a conference in Berlin
“All because of the past two years’ fall in cocoa price,”...
Stakeholders in the Cashew industry have called on government to expedite action on a regulatory framework to further spur the sector’s development.
The stakeholders said lack of regulation in Ghana’s cashew sector is one of the main factors inhibiting growth of the sector, particularly the processing aspect of the value...
Africa has the youngest population in the world and each year 10-12 million of its young people seek to enter the continent’s workforce…too many without success.
This highlights the great challenge of youth unemployment but can also be seen as an opportunity for them to become the engine driving new...
The 2016 National Best Maize Farmer, Kofi Vinyo has advised graduates of the various tertiary institutions to explore vast opportunities in the agribusiness value chain, instead of chasing non-existing white-collar jobs.
He said graduates must be willing to leverage their acquired academic knowledge to turn opportunities in the agriculture sector...
For years Ghana’s fishing subsector has experienced stunted growth, making its contribution to the economy quite insignificant compared with other subsectors.
The fishing subsector since 2006 has contributed less than 3 percent to the country’s economy, according to the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) data.
In 2006 the industry contributed 2.5 percent...