Agrihouse Foundation has developed a mobile news App, ‘AgriWatch News App’ to compliment and scale-up its online interventional project, ‘AgriWatch New Portal,’ aimed at providing the public with timely, accurate and credible agric-related news.
AgriWatch New Portal was initiated in the early months of last year, at the height of...
The Asante Gold Corporation, comprising Chirano Gold Mines and Mensin Gold Limited, has supported the 38th Western North Regional ‘Farmers’ Day Awards’ with several items including a brand new pick-up truck and motor tricycles at a total cost of GH₵463,000.
Before this donation, Chirano Gold Mines - which was recently...
The Executive Director of Agrihouse Foundation, Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa, has reiterated the need for more agric exhibitions as a major component of agriculture development. She said well-funded agricultural exhibitions, which are excellently executed have the potential of contributing significantly to the socio-economic and cultural development of countries as...
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the potential vulnerability of the world’s food supply chains. This is galvanising governments in emerging economies to boost domestic production through new agricultural inputs and investment in agri-tech and logistics networks.
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that 265m people globally could face acute food insecurity by...
The global population is projected to increase to 9.8billion by 2050 –approximately, a 30 percent increase from the current 7.6billion. Numerous research articles posit that to meet the demands of the growing population, global agricultural production will have to increase by 70 percent - which is enormous if you...
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) is seeking to increase the percentage of local rice consumption from a little above 50 percent recorded in 2019 to at least 70 percent by the end of this year.
Out of the 1.2 million metric tonnes of rice consumed by Ghanaians annually,...
The country needs an investment of US$10 billion to completely transform the entire agriculture value chain over the next ten years, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana, Anthony Serlom Morrison, has said.
The investment, which he says could be raised from both the public and private sector,...
New research into the living standards of cocoa farming families shows that on average, Fairtrade boosts farmers’ spending on household essentials beyond the need for food by 9%. For households living below the international poverty line of $3.20 a day, this figure jumps up to 14%, meaning more money...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has reiterated the need for cocoa farmers to embrace hand-pollination exercises to help boost productivity and enhance their income and livelihoods.
The COCOBOD is scheduled to start this year’s mass pollination in June. The programme’s objective is to increase farm yields and national production, as...
Although the European Union’s (EU) ban on Ghana’s vegetable export was lifted in 2017, its impact is still being felt in production and export.
Before the ban – which was caused by non-compliance with sanitary and phytosanitary requirements, Ghana was the largest exporter of fresh chili to the United Kingdom...