Mastercard and Ecobank Group have partnered to connect millions of smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa to Mastercard’s Farm Pass – a digital platform that makes it safer and easier for farmers to sell their produce at a fair price.
Under the partnership, Ecobank will extend the reach and impact of...
Three hundred women farmers, women-led agribusiness and women farmers living with disabilities have taken part in the 4th edition of Women in Food and Agricultrual Leadership Forum (WOFAGRIC) and the Gold in Soil Awards in Takoradi.
The two-day training forum on the theme: ‘Agriwoman: grow-recover-stand out’ discussed technical and field...
It is important to state that in developing countries like Luxembourg, with a GDP of more than US$70billion, insurance penetration as at 2017 was 38.8 percent. This is followed by countries like Hong Kong/China and Ireland with an insurance penetration rate of 17.9 percent and 13.6 percent respectively. In...
The Director of Partnerships at the Chamber of Agribusiness, Christian Mensah Sewordor, has said it is very important to have more and continuous education to help the fight against forced labour in the country.
According to him, a lot of individuals in the country who seek a job do not...
Director at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana, Professor Peter Quartey, has said that government and relevant stakeholders must do more to support the agriculture and the manufacturing sectors to help reduce the country’s rising inflation rate.
Inflation rose to 27.6 percent...
Although the youth are the country’s biggest economic resource for boosting economic growth and development, challenges of high youth unemployment and underemployment pose a grave danger to the economy.
Just to give an indication, in 2016, it was projected that, given the country’s growing youth population, 300,000 new jobs would...
Exports of yam tubers reached a record-high of US$48million last year, according to data from the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) - making the country the world’s largest exporter of yam.
The country now controls 24 percent of the US$200million global export market, growing its export value from US$38.5million in...
Fertiliser prices, according to a World Bank analysis in May, are expected to remain higher for a prolonged period following a rise of nearly 30 percent since the start of 2022 - after the 80 percent price surge last year.
The report, titled World Bank Commodity Market (May), says surging...
Some 800 farmers in the Sekyere South district of the Ashanti Region have benefitted from the distribution of 32,000 kilogrammes of certified rice seeds and 10 rice threshers, under the Development of Rice and Aquaculture Value Chain for Youth Empowerment (RAV CHAIN) project.
The project is an initiative of the...
The local poultry industry has the protentional to create more employment for the teeming Ghanaian youth, while improving the livelihoods of farmers if all stakeholders will commit to supporting the sector, Regional Director of Solidaridad West Africa, Isaac Kwadwo Gyamfi, has said.
“Through the support of all stakeholders, if the...