Even as we tackle the Fulani menace in parts of the Ashanti Region, a security analyst, Dr. Kwesi Aning, is calling for a revision of the strategy. “Operation Cow Leg, driven by the shoot the cattle strategy, is confrontational, is dangerous, is aggravating the problem,” Aning notes.
Corroborating this stance...
Government has, as part of its industrialisation drive, outlined measures aimed reviving all collapsed cashew processing factories in the country.
Key among the steps is a joint effort by the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) and the Exim Bank to offer financial support for the retooling of troubled factories to...
The Annual Percentage Rates (APR) and Average Interest (AI) report for December 2017 released by the Bank of Ghana have shown that the lending rate to the agriculture sector remain high, as it hit 31.1 percent at the close of 2017.
The report shows that out of the 31 commercial...
Government has, as part of its industrialisation drive, outlined measures aimed at reviving all collapsed cashew processing factories in the country.
Key among the steps is a joint effort by the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) and the Exim Bank to offer financial support for the retooling of troubled factories...
The country’s poultry import bill is said to be around GH¢200million. Ghana imports substantial poultry while local poultry farmers struggle to cope with the high cost of feed, among other inputs.
This impediment should be removed with government’s flagship Planting for Food and Jobs programme.
Last year, maize, rice, soybean, sorghum...
The 2017 third quarter GDP figures from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) have shown that the country’s agriculture sector grew by 10 percent, a significant improvement from the 3.4 percent recorded in the previous quarter.
Prior to this, the last time the agriculture sector recorded growth rates above 10 percent...
The USAID Financing Ghana Agribusiness Project (USAID- FinGAP) has awarded ten (10) various agribusiness actors for their diverse contributions to growth and development of the sector, especially in the three northern regions.
The awardees are players in areas such as financing, farm aggregation, agro-processing, business advisory and farming. They were...
About 500 poultry farmers are to be trained in the early detection and treatment of various poultry diseases, as the country seeks to reduce mortality in the poultry sector and meet the growing demand for locally produced chicken.
A recent USAID survey revealed that Ghanaians consume more than two million...
Consumption of local rice over the yuletide surged as dealers and farmers benefitted from increased demand from corporates, government agencies and individuals alike.
Commodity trading company Wienco Ghana - producer of Aduahene Rice, which sells about 1,000 metric tonnes of the commodity on a monthly basis - said demand for...
The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, in charge of Horticulture, George Oduro, has reiterated the commitment of the government to improve the lives of farmers in the country through the modernization of the country's agricultural sector.
He said government's interventions in the agricultural sector through pragmatic policies will not...