Norpalm Ghana Limited has distributed drums of crude palm oil to 20 institutions within the Western Region to support their feeding at a total cost of GH¢120,000. The beneficiary intuitions are: some selected Senior High Schools, Ghana Prisons Service ‘Akuasi’, Vocational Training Institutes, Nursing Training Colleges (Effia Nkwanta and Tarkwa),...
Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta, has led the Ministry and its agencies to plant tree seedlings at the forecourt of the Ministry to commemorate the national flagship ‘Green Ghana Project’. The Ministry, as part of the ceremony, distributed 150 tree seedlings to staff to plant in their communities and...
Ghana has lost a total of 1.41 million hectares of tree cover from 2001 to 2021, equivalent to a 20 per cent decrease in forest cover - a size bigger than the land area of the Western Region - in the last 20 years, with 740 million tonnes of...
The Green Ghana Day, which is aimed at creating a collective action towards the restoration of degraded landscapes in the country, mitigating climate change, and inculcating in the youth the values of planting and nurturing trees and their associated benefits, has been met with positive reviews since its inception...
GIRSAL and DBG sign a Memorandum of Understanding Small and medium-sized businesses operating in the agricultural sector to benefit The Ghana Incentive-Based Risk Sharing for Agricultural Lending (GIRSAL) is to collaborate with the newly established Development Bank Ghana (DBG) which is aimed at improving the funding and capacity-building opportunities...
In a bid to boost the Ghanaian agricultural production amid fears of impending food insecurity due to global fertiliser shortage as a result of the Russia—Ukraine war, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is intensifying its support to the local organic fertiliser industry by introducing a...
Patronage of fertiliser for this year’s planting season is hitting a snag – an all-time low - as farmers are currently having difficulties procuring the commodity for crop production due to rising costs. Although there is an appreciable amount of fertiliser in the system, according to the Peasant Farmers Association...
On the 1st of October 2021, Ghana Cocoa Board announced through a press release that Ghana had maintained the 2020/21 producer price of cocoa as the producer price for the 2021/22 crop. Ghana’s producer price of cocoa beans per metric tonne for 2020/21 (i.e., Gh¢10,560) was a combination of...
Although Rice has long been an important food staple in Ghana, its availability and consumption have depended heavily on imports over the years……mostly from countries like Vietnam, Thailand, India and the USA. Rice importation in Ghana rose sharply from GHC151 million to GHC1.2 billion between 2007 and 2015, according to...
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has assured Zoomlion Ghana Limited of government's support to ensure that they produce quality organic fertiliser on a large scale to help bridge the gap of the shortage of inorganic fertilisers in the country. According to the sector Minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto,...