The Association of Cashew Processors Ghana (ACPG) has called on the government to quicken the pace of setting up the Tree Crop Development Authority to deal with the many challenges within the cashew industry.
According to them, challenges such as unfair Raw Cashew Nut (RCN) market, poor storage, lack of...
The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has called on government to regularize BT cowpea, a genetically modified variety.
The new insect resistant improved cowpea variety developed by the Institute in collaboration with partner institutions, has the potential to boost cowpea production by...
Chemico Limited, Ghana’s pioneer Agro-inputs company, has supported this year’s Farmers Day celebration with over GH¢400,000.
The company handed over a cheque for GH¢100,000 to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), and additionally presented a cash amount and agrochemical products valued at over GH¢300,000 to some Regional, Metropolitan, Municipal...
Government is preparing to meet fruit and vegetable exporters who may be negatively impacted as the United Kingdom (UK) prepares to implement the provisions of its exit from the European Union (Brexit).
Some banana exporters have told the B&FT the UK is likely to increase its import duty for fruit...
…as gov’t, banks remain apathetic toward sector
Dams, technology non-existent to support farmers
The Ghana Rice Interprofessional Body (GRIB) has said it is negotiating with foreign companies to access financial support and drive the needed technological investment into cultivation of the cereal.
The association maintains that high interest rates on local...
The Director, Veterinary Services Directorate, Dr Patrick Abakeh, says seven farms have so far been affected with the Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) in the country.
In all, 5,811 birds died naturally on the affected farms, while the Veterinary Services destroyed 4,500 birds, he said.
The Director said the disease affected five...
A seven-member reconstituted governing board of the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) has been inaugurated by the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto to steer affairs of the company in order to ensure its profitability.
The Board, chaired by Henry Nana Boakye (Nana B), includes the...
The various shipping lines that ferry cocoa from Ghana to the various international destinations have negotiated with the Ghana Shippers’ Authority and the Cocoa Marketing Company, freight rates for the 2021/2022 season.
The lines agreed on a 5% increment across board on the previous freight rate with the Bunker Adjustment Factor increased by 1%. This...
Opportunity International Savings and Loans (OISL) as part of its corporate mission to transform the lives of smallholder farmers through its Agriculture finance programme has organized a farmers’ forum for cocoa farmers.
The Agricultural programme which started in 2010 has disbursed a cumulative loans amounting to GHS190 million to 161,000...
Food security and nutrition are basic human rights and fundamental to a healthy and productive life, yet hunger and malnutrition persist in developing countries. School garden programs with multiple interventions leverage on educational platforms to improve the nutritional behaviour and food security of students and their families are essential.
In...