Let’s Go Farming season 2 is almost here and on our screens via TV3.
Now, let’s look at the key planning stages for our schools which want to want to work on their school gardens (don’t forget to share/record your every stage of your school garden – photography).
Schools’ planning steps
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The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has supported Ghana’s participation in the United Nations Food Systems Summit through the Member State Dialogue.
The UNFSS offered a platform for stakeholders to discuss how to transform food systems and deliver on the SDGs in participating countries.
With support from the International...
A team from the West African Centre for Water, Irrigation and Sustainable Agriculture (WACWISA) of the University for Development Studies (UDS) has participated in a review workshop as part of curriculum development for Solar Powered Irrigation Systems (SPIS) in the country.
The four-day workshop was held in Ho, in partnership...
Throughout the world, the agricultural sector has been identified as essential for the provision of raw materials needed to boost activities and performance of the manufacturing sub-sector. Role of the manufacturing sub-sector in the socio-economic development of countries across the globe cannot be overemphasised.
Manufacturing plays a significant role in...
All other things being equal, a proposed levy on selected tree crops is expected to generate about US$10million in its first year of implementation.
The proposed levy by the Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA) will be paid by buyers, exporters and processors of the affected agro commodities while farmers and...
This year, Agrihouse Foundation will be guided by the theme ‘Our Year of Working Smart to Strengthen our Impact on Farmers and Value Chain Actors’, Executive Director of Agrihouse Foundation, Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa Sarpong, has stated.
According to the Executive Director, among other objectives the theme is expected to...
… This must stop!!!
In Ghana, up is down and down is up. This is my way of trying to remain sane in this country. Every day one unbelievable issue or another crops up and baffles the sensibilities out of me, but I always go to my mantra and...
We are in the dry season, and as a gardener it can be difficult to make sure plants get the water they need to survive, much less thrive. Should you decide to sow some seeds during this period, the best choice would be container/pot gardening.
One of the many benefits...
It has always been a common sight to see local farmers mount pieces of wood and adorn it with some kind of outfit to scare pest birds away from their farms. This is what we all know as scarecrow.
Despite such well-known traditional technology by farmers, the birds have somewhat...
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) and the Rice Millers Association of Ghana (RMAG) have expressed disappointment in government’s decision to suspend implementing reversal of the benchmark value discount policy.
They cautioned that an estimated 100,000 persons who are directly engaged in the...
