Two high-yielding climate-tolerant groundnut seed varieties, Sarinut 1 and Sarinut 2, have been developed by the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI) in the quest to enhance the country’s food security agenda.
The improved seeds, which were recently introduced to farmers in Sabegu...
The Borlaug Higher Education for Agricultural Research and Development Program (BHEARD), part of the United States Government’s Feed the Future initiative, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has partnered with the Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC) to...
The Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH (DAKKS), a world-renowned accreditation body, has renewed the accreditation of the Fish Inspection Department (FID) of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) to inspect and certify fish and fish products before they are exported.
DAKKS, Germany’s national accreditation body, is legally responsible for the accreditation of conformity...
As part of efforts to boost the production of cashew in the country, a total of 19,000 improved cashew seedlings have been distributed to 470 small-scale farmers across eight districts.
The beneficiary farmers are scattered across these areas, Wenchi, Tain (Bono Region), Kintampo South and Nkoranza North (Bono East), Tano...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Sunday inaugurates a GH¢6.7 million Rice Processing Factory at Akontombra as part of his tour of the Western North Region.
The factory, under the One-District One-Factory initiative, has the capacity to produce between 1.5 and 2.8 tonnes of rice per hour.
It has an electricity generation...
Ghana’s fruit and vegetables market is projected to register a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.3 percent during the forecast period, 2021-2026.
The projection, made by Mordor Intelligence - a market research and intelligence consulting firm, attributed the projected low growth rate in revenue to continuous impacts of the...
Delays, harassment and extortion of money by Police officers along some notable roads from major food cultivation areas in the Northern Region have been contributing to post-harvest losses (PHL), leading to the consistent upsurge in food prices, the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has said.
PFAG believes that the...
Choose a large container with drainage
Choose a large container with drainage. Picking the right sized pot can determine whether or not you’ll be successful at growing okra in containers. Okra has large taproots, so you need a pot that can contain them.
Make sure the pot is at...
Agribusiness in Africa
This is the 3rd episode of my WILOA series and today I am focussing on the NPP’s flagship Planting for Food and Jobs Agribusiness Masterstroke. Now anybody who has followed my journey in the academy knows that I have done far more work in the service-related research...
ECOM Ghana has received two awards at the maiden edition of the National Governance & Business Leadership Awards, as the firm and its Country Director, Muhammadu Muzzammil, were adjudged the Agribusiness Company of the Year and the Business Country Manager of the Year, respectively.
The National Governance and Business Leadership...