While Global FDI was estimated to drop below US$1trillion for the first time since 2005, Ghana recorded an increase in Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) in the second quarter of the year as against an initial decline in the first quarter of 2020.
Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows are expected...
About 40 percent, or 800,000 hectares of the country’s over 1.9 million hectares of cocoa farms, are either over-aged or affected by swollen-shoot virus disease.
That informed government’s recently launched rehabilitation programme to cut down and replant diseased and over-aged cocoa farms across the country.
However, industry experts are concerned that...
On the 1st of October 2020, the Global System Mobile Association (GSMA) released the ‘Mobile Economy sub-Saharan Africa’ report which forecast the mobile economy in Africa into 2025.
A positive outlook to start the month of October and last quarter of 2020.
The highlight of this forecast is that by...
While government’s budget is constrained and being reprioritised to fight COVID-19, a public-private partnership (PPP) approach could deliver sustainable cocoa production, industry experts have advocated.
Government recently launched a rehabilitation programme to cut down and replant diseased and over-aged cocoa farms across the country. About 40 percent - or 800,000...
The coronavirus, first detected in the Wuhan province of China in the latter part of 2019, was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. This declaration was on the basis of its widespread effects in over 150 countries within three months.
The global panic...
For their proponents, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) offer improved crop productivity, food security and quality of life, as well as increased income to resource-poor farmers.
“We are importing GMO food and yet we say we are not ready to introduce them here; are we not hypocrites?” said Dr. Ibrahim Atokple,...
Complete Farmer, the unrivalled trendsetter in digital farming, has launched its new ginger farming project under the campaign theme ‘Become a Digital Farmer Today’. This initiative is part of efforts to make farming feasible and accessible to all.
Complete Farmer believes that any interested party can own a farm and...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has charged financial institutions to take a relook at the profiling of youth-owned businesses and start-ups in the country, and find some avenues to extend credit to them as the advent of technology has brought with it the opportunity to create global giants out of them in...
Joel Edmund Nettey, founder and Chief Executive of the Ninani Group - a group of marketing communications specialist companies which include Innova DDB Ghana, ReZultz Advertising, Touchpoint Magna Carta, Interactive Digital, Brand Alert in Ghana as well as Innova Liberia - has been sworn-in as the new President and...
…as private sector activities pick up
New data from IHS Markit has shown that the private sector’s gradual but impressive recovery will lead to positive growth in GDP for the third quarter, signifying the economy will not experience a recession as previously feared.
According to the research firm, Ghana’s Purchasing...