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...
Agriculture involves a lot of movement of goods, therefore, there is a need for investment in logistics. Logistics is the process of coordinating and moving resources, be it people, materials, inventory, and equipment from one location to another. Logistics in agriculture includes purchasing and delivery of raw materials and...
Today, let’s focus on one vegetable that is quite a staple and everyone loves but most people are clueless as to how it grows – Carrots. We have just started introducing the cultivation of carrots with our students on Let’s Go Farming on Tv3.
Carrots are easy to grow as...
Some Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the agricultural sector have urged government to provide subsidises for agricultural imports and create practical policies which will make funding easily accessible to businesses in the sector, ahead of the mid-year budget presentation on Thursday.
Government in its 2021 budget stated that...
A GH¢50million credit warehouse receipt financing (WRF) scheme for smallholder farmers across the country by the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX) is creating value and offering fair pricing mechanisms to farmers against middlemen and buyers from neighbouring countries, the Exchange has said.
The credit, which is established in collaboration with the...
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...