Former Senior Researcher, Crop Research Institute (CRI), Dr. Kwesi Offei Bonsu, has stated that the agriculture sector is struggling and under growing because there is no connection between what they do and research materials that guide operations to deliver maximum yields.
According to him, there are so much research materials...
Agrihouse Foundation in partnership with the Northern Regional Coordinating Council (NRCC) have slated Tuesday, October 19 to Thursday, October 21 of this year, as dates for the 11th Pre-harvest Agribusiness Exhibition and Conference.
This year’s edition, which is on theme “Working Together to Improve Market Channels for Agri-foods Beyond the...
The drive to revamp the ailing cashew processing sub-sector continues to gather steam as six raw cashew nut (RCN) processing factories have been selected by development partners for financial assistance.
Currently, there are about nine RCN processing factories in the country with total installed capacity between 50,000-55,000 metric tonnes. The...
A monitoring report released by the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), has indicted some personnel of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) are complicit in the ongoing smuggling and hoarding of subsidized fertilizers under the ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ (PFJ) programme.
The report, which was compiled by the association...
Agro Kings Ltd, producer of Nana’s Rice, with financial support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is organizing a one-month training course for ten female tractor operators/farm managers at the Agricultural Mechanisation Training Centre at Adidome Farm Institute and Agro Kings Farms, Akuse.
The project...
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...
…about 1000 jobs to be created at full capacity
Akuapem Gold Agro Processing Company Limited (AGAPCo), an avocado processing entity established under the One District, One Factory (1D1F) initiative, has hinted of the heavy investment made into its raw material base to ensure security in raw material base when...
A new survey conducted by the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD) has revealed that most farmers in the country are unaware of government’s main agriculture policy programme targeted at addressing issues of food security in the country.
Despite the roll out of government’s flagship agriculture programme ‘Planting...
The Licensed Cocoa Buyers Association of Ghana (LICOBAG) has assured cocoa farmers in the country that it will pay monies owed them in the light crop season.
This comes after persistent agitation by some of the affected cocoa farmers who say they are yet to receive payment for cocoa supplied...
The Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX) will in the next cashew crop season undertake a reserve auction of a minimum 20,000 metric tonnes (MT) of raw cashew nuts, following successful auction session of 1,000MT last week, Mr. Robert Dowuona Owoo - the Chief Operations Officer, has revealed.
This will be the...