Established in 2001, ECOM Ghana set out to be a leading agro-industrial company with a primary focus on the cocoa value chain. The company is a member of the Ghana Cocoa Buyers Association and a subsidiary of ECOM Agro-industrial Corporation, a Swiss-based commodity merchant and sustainable supply chain management...
Members of the Ghana Rice Inter-professional Body (GRIB) have obtained a US$8million credit facility to address the challenge of fertiliser acquisition for the association’s farmers across the country.
The facility, being extended by the fertiliser production and marketing company BH Fert Agro, is expected to guarantee a timely supply of...
The Chief Operating Officer, Kaksfour Commodities Limited – a key player in the cashew value-chain, Francis Kwame Peprah, has called for regulations in the cashew subsector to sustain the steady growth recorded in trade volume.
He stated that regulations will help address some of the many challenges facing the sector,...
Agriculture in Israel is being practiced under unique and extreme conditions, including long, hot summers, many cycles of drought years, and shortage of good quality water that leads to extensive use of marginal water. All that while having to provide food security to an unprecedentedly growing population - from...
The messiah you may not have heard of
While we heal the wounds from a deadly pandemic, experts foresee another global migraine: global chemical fertiliser production has reduced, current prices have shot up, and farmers fear lower food production in 2022. Meanwhile, in several countries in Africa, the Carribean...
Banks’ knowledge of agriculture financing is still markedly lacking despite the sector’s contribution to national development, the Ghana Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending Project (GIRSAL) has said.
It said banks’ lack of expertise in agriculture financing, coupled with loan applicants’ failure to meet technical feasibility and financial viability requirements,...
The National Inland Canoe Fishermen Council (NICFC) supports the new policy of government to set up an automation system for distributing pre-mix fuel in the country
They also urged government to increase the price of the pre-mix fuel from GH¢7.50 to GH¢10.
Automating the distribution of pre-mix fuel, according to the...
Global stakeholders within the fruit and vegetables value chain from all over the world will convene at the Rimini Event Centre, Italy, for this year’s edition of the annual MacFrut Exhibition scheduled for May 4-6, 2022.
Participants and exhibitors will get to share and transfer knowledge, make business partners, and...
Investors are reluctant to pump money into the local rice value chain due to the benchmark values policy that has made imported rice cheaper than rice produced in the country.
The policy allows rice, along with other products that can be produced domestically, to be imported at discounted duties; thereby...
Ghanaian women continue to play significant roles in the country’s agricultural sector. Women in the sector contribute up to seventy percent of all agricultural production, marketing and processing - mostly combining these responsibilities with raising a family and meeting other social and cultural expectations.
It is however no secret that...