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...
About 70 percent of poultry farms in the country are on the verge of collapsing as poultry feed increases astronomically, president of the Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers (GNAPF), Victor Oppong Adjei, has said.
Two years ago wheat bran used to sell at GH₵15 for a 25kg bag, but...
AgroConnect Ghana and the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE) has launched an agribusiness development initiative to train the youth in farming and agribusiness with the aim of improving food security.
AgroConnect seeks to combine capacity building, development and training opportunities in Africa’s agric ecosystems with the initiative financially supported by the Singapore private sector.
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calls for premium through value addition
The Ghana India Trade Advisory Chamber (GITAC) has expressed concern over the lack of value addition through processing of the increasing cashew nut exports from Ghana to India.
The Chamber’s president, Dominic Oduro-Antwi, told the B&FT that though cashew constitutes almost 80 percent of...
AgroConnect Ghana and the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE) has launched an agribusiness development initiative to train the youth in farming and agribusiness with the aim of improving food security.
AgroConnect seeks to combine capacity building, development and training opportunities in Africa’s agric ecosystems, with the initiative financially supported by the Singapore private sector.
Also,...
Chairman of the African Coconut Group, David Korboe, has urged government to reclaim galamsey lands for coconut production.
According to him, coconut from Ghana is in high demand globally, therefore the need to reclaim adequate lands to meeting growing demands is crucial.
Mr. Korboe made the call at the second edition of the international...
Government has increased the producer price of cocoa to GH¢12,800.00 per tonne, which translates into GH¢800 per bag of 64 kg. gross weight for the 2022/ 2023 cocoa crop season.
This represents an increase of 21 percent from GH¢10,560 per tonne, taking effect from Friday, October 14, 2022.
Announcing the new...
Federated Commodities Limited (FEDCo), a licensed cocoa buying company, has presented a cheque for GH¢4.5million as premium to certified cocoa farmers for the 2021/2022 crop season.
The premium is to encourage the famers to give off their best, especially on best farming practices, and it also forms part of the...
Data from the Development Bank Ghana (DBG) indicate that support of universal banks toward agribusiness finance remains insignificantly low at 4 percent.
This, according to the Bank, calls for action and maximum desire for financial institutions to intervene in agriculture value chain financing in order to position the sector to...
As part of its efforts to help address challenges hampering the Agriculture sectors in the country; Ignitia has taken another prudent step by introducing the New Weather Tool for Agriculture Sector in Ghana and other parts of West Africa.
Ignitia, a Tropical Weather Forecasting based technology company is the world’s...