Substandard pesticides are said to be penetrating the agro-input market in Ghana on the back of rising costs for authentic crop nutrition products globally. Global prices of quality fertiliser and pesticides are getting more and more out of the reach of ordinary farmers, a situation that industry players say...
Dairy import data from the Ghana National Association of Cattle Farmers (GNACAF) indicate that the country imports in excess of US$400million dairy products annually, as demand for fresh milk and other dairy products rise.
Despite this increasing demand, the local dairy industry is stagnating; thereby creating a deficit that can...
He looks quite reserved yet is outspoken, but ‘softly’. He sat overlooking the direction of a group of locals walking toward the isolated private compound-house where the two tricycles had been readied for the morning’s departure to the farm, which is about 15 minutes-ride from our location; and while...
The Food Sovereignty Platform (FSP), a group of Civil Society Organisations, is calling for withdrawal of the Plant Variety Protection bill, 2020 -currently before parliament.
According to the group, the bill is the same as the Plant Breeders bill that sought to promote the production of genetically modified organisms -...
OCP Africa, in a partnership agreement with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), has increased its efforts to support the agricultural value chain in Ghana. This agreement seeks to intensify OCP Africa’s flagship agribooster programme that will bring a global offer to farmers with access to the quality...
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, has urged the government to put more effort into equipping farmers with the needed skills to boost growth in the agriculture sector and improve its contribution to the GDP.
According to her, the government’s Planting for Food and...
An overwhelming body of science-based evidence is throwing more light on how the rapidly growing industrialized animal farms around the world are contributing to serious environmental pollution, climate change, and the spread of infectious diseases.
Recently, top scientists in the Vox American news extensively discussed this issue. It is reported...
Ghana’s Competitive African Rice Platform (CARP) has been launched officially in Accra to boost the country’s rice sector.
The platform seeks to offer a voice and space for national rice stakeholders in Ghana to scale their local impact on sustainability and competitiveness. Overall, the CARP seeks to reduce the overdependence...
Ever since the outbreak of coronavirus, otherwise known as COVID-19, in Wuhan China in December 2019, the global economy has never been the same. The novel coronavirus has caused so many deaths around the world, with Europe currently being the epicentre of the disease. The World Health Organisation (WHO)...
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has rolled out a rehabilitation programme for cocoa farms affected by the swollen shoot disease in the Western North Cocoa Region.
As part of the rehabilitation exercise, COCOBOD has directed all diseased cocoa trees to be cut down for re-planting with new hybrid cocoa seedlings.
Cocoa production...