The Ghana Export-Import Bank (GEXIM) has been awarded the Agribusiness Bank of the Year award at the Ghana Accountancy and Finance Awards 2022 held at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra. The Ghana Accountancy Awards, organised by Strategic Accountancy Africa, provide a platform to celebrate individuals and organisations that play a...
FreezeLink will convene the first ever agricultural cold chain conference in Ghana, under the WE4F (Water and Energy for Food) initiative, on TUESDAY, 25th October, 2022 at the Shippers’ House in Accra. Dubbed the Agri Cold Chain Summit (ACCS) 2022, the purpose of the event is to enable fruit and...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday inaugurated the Sekyere Maize Processing Factory located in Nsuta Kwagye in the Sekyere Central district of the Ashanti Region. Construction of the Sekyere Maize Processing 1D1F began in January 2020, and was completed and handed over in June 2022 at a cost of...
Over 1,100 farmers in the AAK district in the Central region are excited as they enjoy partnership for Crop improvement and replacement Support from Central Citrus Processing Limited (CCPL). The CCPL, in the next couple of months, will commission one of the largest citrus processing plant expected to process over...
MTN Ghana, as part of celebrating the International Day for Rural Women, has organised free training for about 75 female farmers from Pantang, Dodowa and Akuse communities. Economic Empowerment Adviser of MTN Ghana Foundation, Cynthia Daiki Mills, stated that the objective of the training is to equip the women with...
The Managing Director of Cocoa Merchants Ghana Limited (CML), Alhaji Abdul Fataa Adamu, has highly praised cocoa farmers for their commitment to the company while announcing a GH₵1.4million premium for the 2021/22 cocoa season for farmers. Speaking at the 2022 launch of Beyond Beans Foundation and Cocoa Merchants Sustainable Cocoa...
Producers want gov’t priority for inputs, mechanisation, youth policies Trade data from the Ghana Vegetable Producers and Exporters Association (Ghana Vegetables) indicate that annual tomato import from neighbouring Burkina Faso has hit a staggering US$400million from an estimated US$99.5million in 2018. Whereas the Ghana Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural...
Feed the Future Ghana Mobilising Finance in Agriculture (MFA), a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-supported initiative, is committing up to US$261million in loans to agribusinesses in order to expand financing for farmers in Ghana. The money, according to the USAID and Feed the Future Ghana, is to enable...
Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee of National Biosafety Authority (NBA), Dr. Yaa Difie Osei, has called for enhanced cooperation and collaboration between the NBA and various regulatory institutions in the biosafety space through intensifying exchanges in knowledge-sharing on modern biotechnology. She explained that the field of modern biotechnology requires...
Regional Director for Africa, Kwabena Frimpong has revealed that currently, weather is the greatest cause of yield loss for farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa because agriculture is largely rain-fed. He explained that weather causes 20 - 80% of all yield loss in Sub-Saharan Africa, in comparison to yield loss due...

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