Africa’s emerging agripreneurs call for increased SME-to-SME cooperation at Bank-organized food systems webinar attached to the African Green Revolution Forum A panel of some of Africa’s most promising small and medium enterprise (SME) agripreneurs gathered online to call for more selective investment, accelerated business acquisitions and increased cooperation to help...
Federated Commodities, in partnership with Beyond the Beans Foundation, has rolled out sustainable programmes which seek to encourage cocoa farmers in parts of the Eastern Region to produce more - despite the coronavirus pandemic inclining prices on the international market to fall. In February this year, the cocoa price per...
The National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has vehemently denied charging applicants any fees before disbursing the Coronavirus Alleviation Programme Business Support Scheme (CAP BuSS). It has therefore urged the public to treat such reports with contempt, cautioning applicants against the payment of fees or charges to any intermediary...
The Ghana Water Company limited (GWCL), has announced that there will be an interruption of water supply to the eastern part of the Greater Accra Region from Monday the 14th to Saturday the 20th of September, 2020. According to the GWCL, engineers are working to replace close to two kilometers...
The Ghana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) 2017/2018 report has uncovered that disbursement of mineral royalties to communities affected by mining activities left a two-and-half-year gap unpaid and unaccounted for. According to GHEITI, data gathered from the Office of Administration of Stool Lands (OASL) indicated that the last transfer of...
The Ministry of Finance has held separate virtual meetings with the Social Partnership Council (SPC) and the leadership of Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) as part of its stakeholder engagement and consultations to deepen the understanding of the Agyapa Royalty transaction. The Social Partnership Council is made up of the Labour Unions,...
Food and beverage companies have been urged to incorporate safety and hazard measures so as to ensure the health and safety of the final consumer. Speaking at a two-day training in Accra on ‘Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)', Johnson Opuku-Boateng, Director, Business Development Services at the Association of...
The Forestry Commission has expressed worry over selfish and unlawful conduct by opinion leaders in forest-fringe communities that undermines efforts to control the rate of forest resource exploitation in the country. According to the Commission, some chiefs and Assembly members have been taking illegal levies from chain-sawing operators as well...
Former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper has maintained that the Mahama administration did not directly borrow from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to finance the 2016 Budget. Mr. Terkper said the government in 2016 couldn’t have gone for BoG financing to support its expenditure since there was an IMF conditionality that...
…. Operations start next month The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inspected ongoing work on a US$34 million starch processing factory at Amantin, in the Bono East Region. The tour of the Amantin Agro Processing Ltd, a wholly-owned Ghanaian company, formed part of the President’s two-day working visit of the...

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