The country’s food security balance sheet, according to data from the Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG), has hit a negative two percent.
CAG's Chief Executive Officer, Anthony Selorm Morrison, explained that food security - considering the food in storage or reserves, vis-à-vis volume of food imported and compared to national...
The second edition of the highly anticipated Agritech West Africa exhibition, along with Food & Beverage Ghana and FoodPack Tech Ghana exhibitions, is set to take place from March 15-17, 2023 at the Accra International Conference Center.
The expo, organized by Wegvoraus Exhibitions, will be held under the auspices of...
…for Its 2022-2023 AgriTech Challenge Pro Startup Businesses
The Kosmos Innovation Centre (KIC), funded by Mastercard Foundation and Kosmos Energy, has organised the first pitch session for 30 startup businesses working toward their business refinement for the market.
The pitch session held last week saw great businesses across the agricultural...
Continued from Part 2
Why is it problematic for Koa to pay cocoa farmers through mobile money?
Mobile money as a financial system was introduced to support the non-banked population, mostly in rural African agrarian communities, to perform financial transactions efficiently. The basis was that the financial institutions found it...
The economy spent over GH¢6.8billion (equivalent to US$560million at current market rates) importing rice, a grain that can be produced locally, last year.
While total rice consumption stood at 1.4 million metric tonnes in 2022, imports valued at US$560 million accounted for 800,000 metric tonnes (mt) of the consumption figure,...
Agricultural crowdfunding platform Nserewa has set a target of supporting about 2,500 farmers under its farmers’ input support scheme.
Launched in 2021, the Nserewa crowdfunding scheme has supported over 1,200 smallholder farmers across Ghana to produce Rice, Soya and Maize. In addition, the platform enabled the production of an additional...
…The cocoa farmer, KOA or KOA’s collaborators
The assessment of KOA’s transparency system continuous
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The other issue revealed is how KOA gains, and the farmer loses out on the currency depreciation:
As noted in Graph 1, the Ghana cedi depreciated as US dollar appreciated by 55 percent. This...
An online platform that will directly link Ghanaian Agribusinesses to counterparts in the European Union (EU) market has been launched to deepen and increase agricultural investments.
Dubbed the Ghana-EU Agribusiness Platform, the initiative is a partnership between the European Chamber of Commerce in Ghana (EuroCham Ghana) and the Chamber of...
To complement efforts aimed at transforming the cashew sector across production countries in Africa, a capacity building initiative seeking to groom professional actors along the value chain has been held in Sunyani.
A total of 85 cashew value chain actors benefited from the training dubbed cashew Master Training Program (MTP)....
Ghana to have the second edition of the Agritech West Africa exhibition, along with Food & Beverage Ghana and FoodPack Tech Ghana exhibitions, shall be held from 15-17 Mar 2023 at Accra International Conference Center, under the auspices of the Ministry of Food & Agriculture of Ghana and with...