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
Continued from Part 1
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...
The University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (M.O.U) with Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC) to implement the KIC AgriTech Challenge Programme at the regional level, by training students in enterprises under the KIC mentorship programme.
The partnership will see students from the university and...
…will it ever be more than just a pipe-dream?
Thirty-seven-year-old Beatrice Godard’s two children eat rice-meals every day.
All efforts to get them to switch, even if just once a week, to Ghanaian dishes not made of rice - such as banku or fufu - have proven futile.
To feed her kids,...
Some key agriculture civil society organisations (CSOs) have condemned delays in granting tax exemptions on imported agrochemicals and inputs.
The CSOs - Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG), CropLife Ghana and the National Seed Trade Association of Ghana (NASTAG) - said the hold-up could deny...
Local pig farmers are in danger of being pushed out of business as the country officially opens its borders to large quantities of imported pork and meat products from the United States of America.
Per a market access report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Ministry of...
Government will spend GH¢660 million on its flagship Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme for the 2023 implementation year.
The amount is an increase from the GH¢614million spent in the 2022 planting season, constituting a 7.5 percent jump compared to the 39.8 percent - GH¢439million - rise recorded in...