as TCDA unveils 5-year strategy
Government, through the Food and Agriculture Ministry (MoFA) is anticipating to generate an annual revenue of some US$12 billion from exports of six selected tree crops – rubber, shea, mango, oil palm, cashew and coconut fruits – Sector Minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto,...
Golden Star Oil Palm Plantation (GSOPP), the award-winning alternative livelihood project of Golden Star resources, now a member of the Chifeng Gold Group, has chalked a remarkable feat by completing processes, trainings and audits for its smallholder farmers to become certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).
The...
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has held a Regional Sensitisation Tour at Takoradi on the theme: ‘Grow in Ghana, Grow with Ghana’.
Attended by business associations, entrepreneurs, Metropolitan, Municipal and Districts Assemblies (MMDAs), it is designed to meet the local content requirements of the centre’s investment promotion mandate.
Also, it...
as uncompetitive pricing, et al negating local production
annual imports reach US$450m
With barely two and half years to the deadline of government’s agenda to attain national self-sufficiency in rice production by 2024, rice sector stakeholders are concerned that the plan would require extra efforts to materialize.
To ensure the...
The Regional Director for Solidaridad West Africa, Isaac Kwadwo Gyamfi, has said there is urgent need to explore mechanisms that bring in more money to cocoa farmers instead of solely focusing on productivity to tackle the living income gap.
He observed that productivity is not enough to improve farmers’ well-being...
The Ghana Shippers' Authority (GSA) has visited three (3) exporters of farm produce in the Awutu Senya East Municipality as part of its regular shipper outreach exercise.
The visit afforded the GSA the opportunity to interact with the exporters and take stock of challenges affecting their operations.
The move, which forms...
About five (5) months ago, Ghana’s National Biosafety Authority (NBA) - an authority under the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation - published a notice inviting public comments on whether it should approve the country’s first genetically modified crop, the Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) cowpea or beans.
The gazette...
Key poultry sector stakeholders are worried about suspicions of imported frozen chicken being dumped onto the Ghanaian market, citing several reasons including low cost of the product vis-à-vis high taxes slapped on the commodity and other crucial reasons.
Despite a tariff of 35 percent and other taxes slapped on imported...
As part of measures to get rid of fake and illegal agrochemicals on the market, CropLife Ghana has taken steps to coordinate with Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) to identify hotspot areas where some of these products are heavily distributed across the country.
The identification of these hotspot areas where the...
Chief Corporate Communications Officer-Jospong Group of Companies, Sophia Kudjordji, has revealed that excessive use of chemical fertiliser is removing nutrients from fertile lands and rendering farmlands less viable for agricultural production purposes; a situation likely to bring about food shortages in the near-future.
According to her, agricultural waste is getting...