Olam International, a leading global agribusiness and supply chain manager, in conjunction with the Singapore-based Temasek Foundation, today donated 100 Fortitude Testing Kits to the government of Ghana in support of its fight against spread of coronavirus.
The two organisations presented a total of 100 kits comprising the Fortune Kit...
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In between her shifts, Zimbabwean nurse Sinothando Mpofu used to go to Bulawayo’s open-air markets to buy tomatoes and cabbages for her family of nine - until the country’s coronavirus lockdown closed all stalls.
Mpofu worried about where she would get fresh food, until she saw a message in her...
The Women in Poultry Value Chain (WIPVaC) has called for the speedy implementation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Veterinary Pharmacy Protocol in the country.
The group, which is an umbrella organisation of women poultry value chain actors, believe that supporting the implementation of the ECOWAS Veterinary...
Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) which was started in 2017 is one of the five flagship programmes of the government of Ghana aimed at promoting food security and availability on the market, aside from providing job opportunities more especially for the teeming Ghanaian unemployed youth in agriculture and...
Kona Agro Processing Limited, an indigenous cashew processing company at Awisa near Wenchi in the Bono Region, has entered into a joint venture with Australian Dried Fruits and the Nuts Trading entity to scale up cashew processing in the country.
The transaction involves establishing a new 10,000 metric tonne (MT)...
For the first time in three years, the countries fishing sector has shown signs of a promising future as figures from the Ghana Statistical Service indicate it has finally recorded growth after a period of contraction.
The fishing sector has been in abysmal form since 2017, when growth contracted to...
Egg glut pushes farmers to slash price by 20%
500,000 crates of eggs set to go bad
Farmers ready to lay-off workers
One Day, One Egg campaign unveiled
Poultry farmers are pushing government to take a bold decision to regulate the importation of frozen and other finished poultry...
Farmers in the Bole district of the Savannah Region are to benefit from 200,000 cashew seedlings and a nursery to complement their normal production and boost plantations in the region.
The seedlings, when mature, will be distributed to farmers free of charge as part of government’s flagship policy Planting for...
Last year was the third-worst this century for tropical tree-loss, according to new data released Tuesday by Global Forest Watch - an online platform that provides data and tools for monitoring forests.
There is, however, a sliver of good news: the world’s most important cocoa-producing countries, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, showed signs...