The Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), Ghana Shippers Authority (GSA) and the 24 shipping lines operating in the country have resolved to stay freight charges for the 2020/2021 cocoa season. This means the rate, calculated per tonne, for shipping the crop to the various locations across the world remains unchanged at...
Research scientists from the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI) working on the Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea (PBR Cowpea) variety have been commended for sticking to the confined field trial protocols issued by the National Biosafety Authority. The adherence to protocol helps to...
President Akufo-Addo has announced a new producer price for Cocoa for the 2020/2021 crop season. The government has pegged the new price at GHS10, 560 per metric ton of cocoa--- which translates to GHS660 per bag of cocoa. The current 2019/20 producer price of GHS8,240 per metric ton (GHS514/64kg Bag) was...
Stanbic Bank Ghana, as part of its ‘All for One’ campaign, has delivered 3,008 units of COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test kits and 3,072 units of Nucleic acid (RNA) extraction kits to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to enhance its COVID-19 testing and early case detection capacity. This is...
The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI) has stressed its commitment to developing market-driven improved cowpea varieties for West Africa, using mature-markers to boost food security. New varieties have been developed with the aim of building multiple resistance to Root Rot disease, Cowpea...
I write this rejoinder in response to a story by Panbrose Salt Company Ltd dated 15th September, 2020 on the above - mentioned subject. Lease of land It is recalled that the James Town Stool leased a 5-acre land to me on 1st March, 2014 for Industrial Purpose. The land was...
President Akufo-Addo has announced a new producer price for Cocoa for the 2020/2021 crop season. The government has pegged the new price at GHS10, 560 per metric ton of cocoa--- which translates to GHS660 per bag of cocoa. The current 2019/20 producer price of GHS8,240 per metric ton (GHS514/64kg Bag) was...
Achimota Retail Centre has set off its month-long fifth anniversary celebration in a public-spirited fashion, with the donation of a consignment of medical supplies and PPEs to the Achimota Hospital in Accra. A delegation led by Mr. Isaac Kyei-Mensah, a Director at the Centre, handed over items including latex examination...
Recently data management systems have become an integral theme in the oil and gas sector. Oil and gas industries are leveraging data centers to systematically manage enormous volumes of data generated from operational activities. This is because volumes of data in the sector have experienced significant surges, thus calling for high-tech...
REAL ESTATE MINUTE With Cyril Nii Ayitey Tetteh God day Ghana, trust you are keeping well. Have you enjoyed our serialized sessions from the 3rd Ghana Green Building Summit?  In the light of COVID -19 Pandemic and the need to create healthy spaces, one of the relevant topics we discussed...