Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto has noted that even though sweet potato is not list listed as a food security crop in the Food and Agricultural Sector Development Policy (FASDEP II), a lot of attention is being given to the promotion of the crop to...
About 6,480 farmers from six districts in the Northern Region have been provided with free certified seed starter packs at a seed and technology fair held at Sang in the Mion District.
The fair, held on the theme ‘Getting Certified Seeds to Smallholder Farmers’, saw starter packs including maize, rice...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement (ADVANCE) has held capacity training for some selected farmers and agricultural extension agencies on the monitoring and scouting of the Fall Army Worm (FAW) in Tamale of the Northern.
The USAID Feed the Future Agricultural...
The absence of strong regulations on the importation and use of agro-chemicals poses a threat to human life and food security, CropLife Africa Middle East (AME), a regional federation representing the plant science industry and a network of national associations in 30 countries in Africa and the Middle East,...
Reducing barriers to women’s economic empowerment is the fastest way to accelerate economic growth, especially in the Ghanaian context where a large number of women are engaged in key activities like agriculture, Heather Cameron, Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, has observed.
She said, addressing the constraints to women’s economic empowerment...
Côte d’Ivoire’s membership in ATI is seen as an integral part of the government’s strategy to attract more investments and to diversify the economy through increased trade and investment opportunities
The African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) has announced that Côte d’Ivoire has joined a growing list of African countries who...
Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, President and Chief Executive Officer of Groupe Nduom (GN) has announced that GN is ready to lead rice revolution in Ghana in the next five years to ensure that importation of rice is brought to the barest minimum.
In total, he said it will take about...
The Hungarian Embassy in Ghana is organising its maiden “Hungarian Cultural Week” at the Kempinski Gold Coast City Hotel in Accra, as part of efforts to promote the country’s rich traditions and culture.
The week-long celebration will be marked along three key pillars of arts and cultural exhibition; a Ghana-Hungary...
Optimal Reserve Ratio (Gold Reserve / Foreign Reserve)-Targeting (30%) , in tandem with Inflation-Targeting
The present Government's Cedi stability policies are recycled from 2000 - 2008 (Pre - Global Financial Crisis), and inappropriate for today's global monetary environment (Quantitative Easing dilutes Ghana's Cash Reserves), and some negative nominal interest rates...
Enquiries made by the B&FT have established that the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), can handle the intermediary role in across-network mobile money transactions, a multi-million-dollar job the central bank has outsourced to a private company.
An insider source told the B&FT that what GhIPSS, a wholly owned...