AgriConnect Ghana, a collaboration between the SOFTtribe and the Mastercard Foundation, began delivering laptop computers to students at the University of Ghana, the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on February 5, 2024.
Over 1,000 students have received their laptops and...
While government has allocated a little over GH¢253million for constructing the Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam as mentioned in the 2023 national budget, the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has described the amount as woefully inadequate.
Although the association commended government for appreciably prioritising irrigation, Executive Director-PFAG, Dr. Charles Nyaaba, addressing...
Fisheries Advisor for the Sustainable Fisheries Management Project (SFMP), Kofi Agbogah, has called for the Fisheries Act to be amended to help support the Co-management Policy that has been identified globally as an international best practice in fisheries management.
“Fisheries Co-management is a strategy for managing Common Pool Resources, whereby...
The Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP) will rehabilitate and modernise selected irrigation schemes in the country to boost agricultural production and increase food security in the country.
The irrigation schemes earmarked for rehabilitation include Kpong Irrigation Scheme, Kpong Left Bank Irrigation Scheme as well as the Tono and Vea Irrigation...
Some Civil Society organisations (CSOs), including the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFA) and the Centre for No-Till Agriculture, have advocated for a new policy that will gradually discourage the use of fertiliser while encouraging the adoption of agroecology in farming.
The CSOs argue that the world is moving from...
Speakers at the just-ended Ghana Youth Agriculture Summit have encouraged the youth and agriculture enthusiasts to shift from the old way of agriculture production and adopt technology in their quest to boost productivity.
This has become necessary as the world keeps moving onto new technological and digital tools for efficiency...
The Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) has announced the opening of entries for its Ghana Media Awards to reward journalists for their immense contribution to the growth of agricultural biotechnology in Ghana.
THE receipt of entries which started on Monday, June 13, 2022, will close on August 12. 2022.
Addressing...
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Asian African Consortium (AAC), Mrs. Adelaide Araba Agyepong, has stressed the need for an all hands on deck approach to make the President’s vision of boosting rice production in Ghana a reality.
She said the vision of ending rice importation in Ghana goes...
Vegetable producers and exporters in the country are targetting an annual revenue of US$7million between now and next year as contribution to the non-traditional export sector (NTE).
The revenue projection is the result of increasing demands in the EU and US markets coupled with high production capacity in Ghana.
“We are...
The Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has trained agriculture extension officers in the Central Region on the dangers and management of aflatoxins - natural poisons produced by the fungus Aspergillus flavus and several other related species in food items.
The exercise dubbed, trainer of trainers, saw 50 agriculture extension officers benefit from training...
