The Ministry for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development has distributed 300 outboard motors to fishermen in the Western Region.
With these subsidized outboard motors, the government and fishermen share the cost equally and it is to support the livelihood of the fishers and the fishing communities
Mrs. Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, Minister for...
Crop Doctor Ghana Limited (CDGL), the leading agribusiness company and a subsidiary of ECOM Ghana, has donated farm implements worth GH45,000 through its mechanisation unit ‘MICROMEC’ to the various districts, regional and municipal directorates of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) in support of the 38th National Framers’...
Government has announced plans to introduce an export levy on raw cashew nuts (RCN), aimed at promoting domestic processing of the commodity by discouraging excessive exports, Gifty Klenam - CEO of Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), has announced.
The cashew market in the country is saturated by exporters, predominantly foreigners...
The absence of strong regulations on the importation and use of agro-chemicals poses a threat to human life and food security, CropLife Africa Middle East (AME), a regional federation representing the plant science industry and a network of national associations in 30 countries in Africa and the Middle East,...
GAWU as a Union of change has always advocated for the rights of workers, especially those within the agricultural value chain since its establishment as a trade union in the year 1959.
Some of these include advocating for the involvement of rural farmer’s participation in the world trade, advocating on...
Despite PFJ’s gains, inadequate raw materials linger
Sector loses more than US$5m to pandemic
Millions of jobs on the line, food security under threat
Poultry farmers and feed-millers across the country are expressing worry over a looming collapse of the local poultry industry due to the scarcity and...
The development facility of the eco.business Fund - managed by Finance in Motion - in partnership with Fidelity Bank Ghana, hosted two agricultural summits in Ghana to discuss economical and sustainable solutions to the challenges currently faced by the local poultry sector.
The summits offered more than 100 participants a...
as its rehabilitation efforts bear fruit
US$6.8 mn invested, over 900ha successfully reclaimed
Mining, if responsibly done is not antithetical to agriculture but rather complementary, and the efforts of Gold Fields (Ghana) Limited are verifiable proof of this, a senior environmental officer at the mining behemoth, Desmond Asare, has...
At the back of the recent re-launch of the government’s flagship agricultural programme Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) Phase 2, Agrihouse Foundation – one of Ghana’s foremost agriculture growth facilitator, has let out a press release, re-emphasising the place of the private sector in leading a partnering drive...
Following the government’s decision to increase rice production in the country, the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC) has signed MoUs with key sector rice players in Thailand for the establishment of a Seed Development and Research Centre, Rice Mechanisation Centres, Bio-organic Fertiliser Production Centers, Supply of Farm Implements and...