Executive Director of Agrihouse Foundation, Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa Sarpong has noted that, this year’s Gold in the Soil Awards, has for the 1st time in four (4) years, received over 17 entries from women with disabilities, primarily from the Western and Western North Regions of Ghana. Ms. Akosa Sarpong...
As part of efforts to address the shortage of agro-chemicals, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has announced that government is proactively working with local fertiliser producers to produce quality organic fertiliser on a large scale for farmers across the country. According to the sector minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie...
Aimed at averting a looming food crisis in Africa, the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved an African Emergency Food Production Facility to rapidly produce 38 million tonnes of food translating into a US$1 billion increase in food production in two years. The US$1.5billion facility will help African countries...
“The most dangerous aspect is that when GMO and hybrid seeds are planted and they start producing flowers, the flowers are able to cross-pollinate organic seeds (African seeds) and turn them into GMO seeds. In the process, the GMO cross-pollinated seeds develop GMO or terminator genes to stop African...
Cocoa production for the 2021/22 cocoa season has been forecasted to fall by one-third due to less conducive weather conditions and the outbreak of swollen shoot disease. According to the International Cocoa Organisation’s (ICCO) monthly report for April 2022, the global 2021/22 cocoa market will fall into a deficit of 181,000MT...
The Cocoa Value Addition Artisans Association of Ghana (COVAAAGH) is set to showcase an innovative Ghana-made artisanal cocoa products line at the 13th World Trade Promotion Organisations - WTPO - Conference and Awards in Accra, Ghana. COVAAAGH will be featuring alongside other groups and organisations in the Non-Traditional Export (NTE)...
Founder and Managing Editor of Cocoa Post, Kojo Hayford, has been elected as the Media and Communication Officer for the Cocoa Value Addition Artisans Association of Ghana (COVAAAGH). Hayford will serve alongside three other elected executives and one appointed executive, forming the association's five-member Executive Council. The council has a...
Agrihouse Foundation chalked another grand success with the timely and colourful execution of the 2nd edition of the Ghana Chicken Festival (GHACHICK), which came off in Accra at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel, Ridge. Annually, the event aims to promote the consumption and patronage of local poultry products, and create...
The Managing Director of the Agricultural Development Bank PLC (ADB), Dr. John Kofi Mensah, has said the bank is ready to partner religious bodies to venture into Agriculture. According to Dr. Kofi Mensah, religious organisations should take advantage of government intervention programmes like Planting for Food and Jobs, Planting for...
Fairtrade Foundation has published a new report revealing key insights into factors that can either enable or jeopardise the ability of Fairtrade-certified cocoa co-operatives in Ghana to create and fairly distribute positive benefits to their farmer members. Supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations, the report has been...