…as inability to handle standards persists
Richard Twumasi-Ankrah, Director for Policy, Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, has indicated that smallholder farmers are losing significant amounts of money in their quest to trade on the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX) platform due to inability to meet...
The Market-Oriented Agriculture Programme in North Western Ghana (MOAP-NW), has trained a total of 85 seed producers and seed inspectors on quality seed production and regulations.
The week-long training, which was in partnership with the Plant Protection and Regulatory Services Directorate (PPRSD) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA)...
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...
New research into the living standards of cocoa farming families shows that on average, Fairtrade boosts farmers’ spending on household essentials beyond the need for food by 9%. For households living below the international poverty line of $3.20 a day, this figure jumps up to 14%, meaning more money...
The president of the Ghana Rice Inter-Professional Body (GRIB), Nana Kwabena Adjei-Ayeh II, has said until government puts in some measures to support proper preparation of rice farmlands, targets for self-sufficiency will be difficult to achieve.
According to him, there are good intentions for rice farmers but little is seen...
The Minister for Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has assured that government is engaging all stakeholders in the agriculture sector to ensure the Plant Variety Protection (PVP) regulations are passed before the end of 2021.
The Plant Variety Protection bill seeks to establish a legal framework to...
The office of Dr. Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, in partnership with Agrihouse Foundation, has announced the kick-off of their ‘It is Possible’ Agribusiness development-training programme targetted at the youth of Ghana.
The 3-day intensive and practical Agricultural Capacity Building and Business Set-Up Roadshow (NAGRICA) tagged – It’s Possible – carried out a...
The role of traditional leadership is an integral aspect of Ghanaian culture. In Ghana, traditional leaders have for years worked with local government to enhance peace, security and development in their respective districts and communities as part of contributing to national development.
Chiefs and queen mothers are in fact regarded...
WeComm Agri-Media and Consultancy Limited and Chi-Gaba, an outgrower farmer support scheme, have launched this year’s Nserewa Rice production project in Weta in the Volta Region.
The event saw hundreds of farmers and stakeholders in the rice value chain in attendance and was used to prepare the farmers for the...
Fairtrade Foundation has published a new report revealing key insights into factors that can either enable or jeopardise the ability of Fairtrade-certified cocoa co-operatives in Ghana to create and fairly distribute positive benefits to their farmer members.
Supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations, the report has been...