Nana Opanbour Bonsu II, President, Concerned Farmers Association of Ghana has expressed dissatisfaction over the clearing of cocoa trees for the cultivation of rubber in cocoa communities in the...
Government has partnered a local company to establish a factory in the Western Region to produce charcoal from palm kernel for export. The factory, to be sited within the Prestea Huni Valley...
Hundreds of irrigation farmers in the Bawku West District of the Upper East region say thay have lost millions of cedis to poor harvest occasioned by no availability of water to feed their crops....
Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) has organised a workshop for stakeholders in the agricultural sector to engage duty-bearers on gender gaps in the agricultural and land sectors. It...
Alhaji Ahmed Abubakari Yussif, the Yendi Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) has advised male farmers to support women who intend to venture into farming to enable them increase productivity to boost the...
The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has justified claims by his Ministry that government’s flagship programme, ‘Planting for Foods and Jobs’ (PFJ), in its first year...
Government on Friday presented a fully-furnished three-bedroom house to the 2016 National Best Farmer, Mr Robert Bob Crentsil, at a handing-over ceremony at Gomoa-Aprah in the Gomoa East District of...
Government’s attempts to modernise agriculture in the country could have “disastrous consequences” for the sector and consumers, the General Agricultural Workers’ Union (GAWU) has warned. It...
Farmers in the Tamale North constituency in the Northern Region have been provided with knapsack sprayers and other farm inputs by their Member of Parliament, Alhaji Alahassan Suhuyini, to deal with...
Implementation of a project to help farmers reduce post harvest losses and improve sustainable nutrition for all has started at Dorimon in the Wa West District of the Upper West Region. It is being...
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Accra has warned against the over reliance on pesticides in the treatment of the fall armyworm infestation currently devastating large portions of...
The Managing Director of Yara Ghana Limited has mounted strong defence for government’s move to increase fertilizer use to boost farming in the country, as he rejects long-held perception linking...
The United States will not resume imports of beef from Brazil until food safety issues have been addressed, US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said Monday. Purdue met with his Brazilian...
Languidly ploughing flooded paddy-fields, Thailand's buffaloes don't usually strike people as the quickest of beasts. But farmers in eastern Thailand on Sunday showed off their fastest bovines in a...
A runaway circus camel caused traffic chaos and trespassed onto the ninth green of a military golf course before bemused Australian police recaptured it Monday. Rush hour drivers in the Northern...
India's top court on Tuesday stayed a nationwide ban imposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on the sale of cattle for slaughter that had provoked outcry in many states. The Supreme...
Policy Think Tank, IMANI Africa, has questioned the viability of government’s biggest agricultural policy dubbed ‘Planting for Food and Jobs.’ IMANI decried that the policy failed to address...
A government-run laboratory in western India has developed portable "beef detection kits" that will allow police to quickly determine whether meat is that of an illegally slaughtered cow, an official...
Local fruit processing companies risk collapse due to inadequate raw material, if no conscious effort is made by government to rescue the situation. According to the Director of Corporate Affairs at...
Rice farmers at the Tono Irrigation site at Navrongo in the Upper East Region says, over four thousand metric tonnes of rice cultivated this year could go waste, if the government does not provide...
