Bayer, as part of this year’s company’s Future of Farming Dialogue virtual event series, has emphasised the importance of the company’s sustainability commitments it set in 2019. Liam Condon, President of the Crop Science division of Bayer, addressing participants said the impact of COVID-19 and resulting economic instability reinforced the...
Initiating a social network amid a COVID pandemic may appear insensitive, but for the people in Ada State it is a way to own and bring economic development to an area that has not received much governmental support for many years. On November 7, 2020, Ada Development Network (ADN) will...
The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), is working to introduce the first genetically modified/biotechnology cowpea (beans) seed to farmers for the 2021/22 crop season. The new variety is to solve an age-old insect pest problem - the Maruca vitrata or the...
The Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) is eyeing an increase in transit trade with neighbouring landlocked countries - Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger - with construction of the Tema-Akosombo railway project. According to Fred Asiedu-Dartey, Head of Freight and Logistics at the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA), completing the railway project will...
The second Israeli Green Innovation Competition (IGIC), which seeks to honour individuals and organisations that come up with innovative solutions to promote environmental conservation and agriculture in Ghana, has officially begun. The Green Innovation Competition focuses on innovative startups in the agriculture and horticulture sector, which is in line with...
Mr. Wamkele Mene, Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), says the continental trade regime will take off as planned on January 1, 2021. He said the AfCFTA Secretariat is targetting January 2021 for commencing implementation of the free trade agreement, following its postponement due to the...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said, the number of active COVID-19 cases has  declined  to 398. “As at Friday, 16th October,  the number of active cases has declined further to 398, with 46,664 persons fully recovered from the virus, putting our recovery rate at 98.5 percent. Thirteen more deaths have...
Institutions and individuals must treat the subject of professional communication with utmost seriousness, as there could be wide-reaching implications for poor, ineffective or out rightly wrong communication, especially in professional settings, Country Director, Young Educators Foundation, Eugenia Tachie-Menson, has said. According to her, whilst the advent of social media has...
Is Africa a continent or a country?  How many parts of Africa are there? Is Ghana in Africa?  These are real questions asked me by many tweenagers in the years I have been engaging them. I figured out Africa was a continent when I was in primary school; my mom...
Not many years ago in this motherland An issue with machines arose For which trained hands and minds were sought ...for a practical solution ...for an engineering function No more, no less   Uncovered was a collection of industrial machines Abandoned in a prospective machine shop Located in the metropolis of Tema Built on a pitch on a school...