A heavy rainstorm on Sunday hit a farming community at Kokubila- Nasia in the Savelugu Municipality in the Northern Region resulting in the destruction of 350 acres of commercial farms.
One of the farms, a 120-acre farm located at Kokubila on the Tamale-Bolgatanga road, affected by the rainstorm poses risk...
The National Coordinator for Shea Network Ghana (SNG), Iddi Zakaria, has called on government to compensate communities where Shea trees are destroyed to make room for government projects and infrastructure.
According to him, Shea trees serve as the main source of livelihood for rural women; therefore, when the trees are...
Agriculture contributes 65 percent of Africa’s employment and 75 percent of its domestic trade
Africa has so far escaped the worst health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the continent looks like it could be the worst hit from the economic fallout of the crisis: 80 million Africans could be...
GAWU as a Union of change has always advocated for the rights of workers, especially those within the agricultural value chain since its establishment as a trade union in the year 1959.
Some of these include advocating for the involvement of rural farmer’s participation in the world trade, advocating on...
Credit: This is Africa
Highlights from the Economic Development in Africa report for 2018 of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), indicates that after the 1960s, Africa recorded one of its longest periods of sustained economic growth between 2004 and 2014 with a growth rate of more...
Solidaridad, through its Sustainable West Africa Oil Palm Programme (SWAPP II), funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ghana and Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, has partnered the Ghana Skill Development Initiative project to develop a curriculum and learning materials for competency-based training in...
Determined to see a self-sufficient Ghana, the ever pro-active agric non-governmental organization, Agrihouse Foundation is, once more, serving Ghanaians another of its life enhancing initiatives they have aptly called 1 Household, 1 Garden initiative. Already, over 600 households have registered to the initiative within one week of the project’s...
Farmers in the Northern Region have appealed for the release of government’s subsidised fertilisers for their farming activities. The farmers who have ploughed their fields and are ready to engage in their farming are left without access to the fertilizer to apply on their crops.
“We are not happy that...
In the fight against novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has initiated a process to raise about GH¢60million to purchase personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline agriculture workers.
The rationale is to support frontline agriculture workers, encompassing smallholder farmers, agriculture extension...
The upcoming farming season will go ahead uninterrupted despite disruptions to the farm input supply chain, RMG Ghana Limited - a leading input provider - has assured.
This follows launch of the firm’s GH¢100,000 COVID-19 Farmers' Support Programme and the acquisition of all needed inputs for the upcoming crop season...