The biggest cocoa harvest in a decade is spurring record domestic borrowing by the industry regulator of the world’s no. 2 cocoa producer.
Ghana Cocoa Board has sold 11.7 billion cedis ($2 billion) of six-month bills between January and May, the most in the five-month period since at least 2011,...
Some Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the agricultural sector have urged government to provide subsidises for agricultural imports and create practical policies which will make funding easily accessible to businesses in the sector, ahead of the mid-year budget presentation on Thursday.
Government in its 2021 budget stated that...
....“Lessons to be learned from "DeBeers Diamond Dilemma"
I am sure that most stakeholders in the Cocoa sector have heard about the “Lab-Grown Chocolate” project under trial in Switzerland.
This innovation which is been trialled as a possible solution to the “sustainability issues” raised in the cocoa sector has led to...
The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has announced plans to establish Grains Development Authority, to among others further the development and regulation of the market for the produce.
The Grains Development Authority, which will replace the Grains and Legumes Development Board (GLDB) set up in the...
In an effort to empower and impact rural farmers with digital solutions for agriculture, Esoko - an impact-driven agricultural profiling and messaging service - has launched an ‘agent network model’ to help farmers access information for farming purposes.
The model, a computer-based application known as the insyt app, is used...
following visit by Agric Minister
The Overlord of Dagbon, Ndan Ya-Na Abukari II, has praised the National Best Farmer for 2021, 44-year-old Alhaji Mohammed Mashud, who hails from Mion District in the Northern Region.
He said the award was for the people of Dagbon, thus urging the youth in Dagbon...
Government, as part of its agriculture modernisation programme this year, will create a database with a special feature for tracking fertiliser and seed distribution to farmers under the ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ (PFJ) policy.
The electronic database, according to provisions in this year’s agriculture sector budget, will ultimately seek...
Ghana is 65 years old and congratulations to all Ghanaians. 65 years is such a long time for the existence of any entity. Over the years, Ghana has seen progress in its economic, social, religious, cultural and indeed all aspects of national life. However, situated in the context of...
Revenue generation and sources of development funding are the most topical issues dominating public discourses today in Ghana. Various development stakeholders are therefore required to assist policy-makers in search of innovative solutions to the nation's economic and financial heartaches.
It is against this background that some of us, working in...
The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Afriyie Owusu Akoto, has highly commended Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) for its readiness to supply organic fertlisers at affordable prices to Ghanaian farmers in the midst of the global shortage of inorganic fertilisers.
“In the wake of the global fertiliser shortage caused by...