Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is planting over 1.6 million forest trees in the 2020/2021 cocoa crop year on cocoa farms across the country.
This forms part of COCOBOD’s National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme. The rehabilitation programme is to replace about 40% of the country's cocoa tree stock, which are either overage...
U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S. Sullivan joined Buipewura Abdoulai Jinapor II and members of the Global Shea Alliance (GSA) to commemorate Shea Day with a tree planting event within the grounds of the Yagbonwura’s Jakpa Palace in Damongo.
This event is a part of the Action for Shea Parklands...
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abdulai Jinapor has notice that public auction would not be done for all confiscated natural resources such as rosewood, which are ban for export.
The Minister warned explicitly that no Rosewood is permitted to leave the shores of Ghana per the laws...
A new regulation to block foreigners from purchasing cashew nuts directly from the farmgate will soon be enforced to make trading the commodity the sole preserve of Ghanaians, deputy Chief Executive Officer, Operations at the Tree Crop Development Authority (TCDA), Foster Boateng, has revealed.
Mr. Boateng disclosed to the B&FT...
Norpalm Ghana Limited, an agro-based -processing company, has distributed crude palm oil to 21 selected institutions in the Western Region.
The institutions comprised 16 senior high schools (SHS), two nursing training colleges, one correctional institution and two special schools, and received two drums each for feeding the students.
Speaking at the...
With the setting-up of the Tree Crops Authority as part of government’s Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD) programme, it is noteworthy that one of the six earmarked tree crops under PERD - cashew - has been able to launch the Cashew Council of Ghana (CCG) to serve...
The international market has downgraded the quality of Ghanaian cashew, necessitating a price drop in the commodity on the local and global markets.
This phenomenon, according to CEO-Tree Crop Development Authority (TCDA), William Agyapong Quaittoo, has consequently influenced the country’s drop - from second position in West Africa in terms...