The Ghana Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending Project (GIRSAL), through its Partner Excellence Awards, has recognised its most-active financial institutions and individuals for helping increase lending to the agriculture sector. The awardees were honoured for supporting the agriculture sector through GIRSAL’s core programmes - the Credit Risk Guarantee...
A five-year analysis of the national budget - 2020 to 2024 - by the B&FT found that the country has consistently fallen short of meeting the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) allocation target. Ghana became a signatory to the CAADP in 2009, committing to allocate ten percent of the...
The Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers (GNAPF) has said the current drop in the price of maize - the main commodity for poultry feed - is a sign that the sector will recover in 2024. The relief comes after several years of concerns over the high cost of production,...
Amit Kumar Aggarwal, Director of Agromach Engineering Limited – a leading manufacturer of Rice Mills in India, has expressed the belief that Ghana holds the potential to become self-reliant in rice production and emerge as a net exporter to West African countries. Leveraging Ghana's expansive and fertile lands, Aggarwal suggests...
Our earlier news story titled ‘Cassava – Ghana’s next gold mine’ has generated thoughtful conversations, with sound feedbacks, responses and submissions from industry players which  includes cassava farmers, processors, academia, development agencies, investors, researchers, beginner agribusinesses, individuals who desire to explore opportunities within value added cassava, and many others. With...
In a bid to champion the role of women in agriculture and foster sustainable food security, Feed the Future Ghana Policy LINK in partnership with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has unveiLled plans to provide extensive year-long support to female farmers honoured at the recent National Farmers’...
Members of the Ghana chapter of the Africa Food Systems Parliamentary Network (AFSPaN) say they will work to ensure the government allocates the necessary resources to the agricultural sector to help improve food security. Member of Parliament for Wa East and chair of AFSPaN in Ghana Dr. Godfred Seidu Jasaw...
After two years of successful operations in agri-production business, the management and staff of Southern Ridge Farms Ltd. held its top management to a strategic planning exercise on Farmers’ Day to position itself ready for the 2024 production year. Driving on the theme ‘Scaling for Sustainable Growth, Efficiency and Profitability’,...
Newage Agric Solutions has begun a journey to create 145,000 dignified jobs for youth, women and persons with disability, with women constituting 70 percent of it. This is being done through the Harnessing Agricultural Productivity and Prosperity for Youth (HAPPY) programme - a co-created, consortium-managed project in partnership with...
About US$150million has been earmarked by the World Bank as funding for its West Africa Food System Resilience Programme (FSRP) phase-two project in Ghana, Chad and Sierra Leone. More than one million people are expected to benefit from the five-year project, which seeks to strengthen food systems and risk management...