The government will, by April this year, launch an audacious campaign to turn farmlands and backyards into a huge food basket that is expected to cut down the country’s food import bill...
International experts will hold emergency talks in Harare on Tuesday to tackle an outbreak of crop-eating "armyworm" caterpillars advancing across several African countries. The armyworm has already...
The plant protection and regulatory services directorate of the Food and Agriculture Ministry has confirmed the invasion of fall armyworms on some farms in the country. Some maize farmers in the...
Mr. Joe Mensah, Country Manager and Vice President of Kosmos Energy, has stated that the agriculture sector has the key to unlock wealth for the country if it receives more innovative approaches...
Ghana has been asked to scale up the effort to increase bamboo and rattan production in the country to serve as alternative raw material to timber and help save the forest. Mr. Michael Kwaku,...
Scientists are calling for urgent action to halt the spread of a pest that is destroying maize crops and spreading rapidly across Africa. The fall armyworm poses a major threat to food security and...
The Ghana Agricultural Insurance Pool (GAIP) is introducing a livestock insurance scheme to cushion farmers in the event of losses on their animals. With effect tomorrow the pilot stage of the...
The Ghana Statistical Service has secured some funding to embark on a nationwide agricultural census to collect data on farmers, farm size and crops cultivated for decision making. The project should...
The Ghana Rubber Estate Limited (GREL) is to begin the construction of a second factory this year in the Western Region; a project that is set to generate over 2,000 jobs in the first phase....
Researchers at the Technology Consultancy Centre (TCC), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), say they are making progress in their effort to help boost the nation’s energy...
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Green-Ef Eco-Business Village Limited, Mr Mohammed Sachibu, has called for modernisation of agriculture to alleviate poverty among smallholder farmers in the...
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has expressed disappointment in the attempt by the Minister of Agriculture and some Vetting Committee members to misinform Ghanaians about the...
Kosmos Energy, one of the partners of Ghana’s Jubilee Field, has launched a second edition of its Agritech challenge dubbed “Kosmos Innovation Center 2017 Agritech Challenge” aimed at youth...
Kosmos Energy Ghana has admitted a new batch of 100 new young entrepreneurs into its social investment programme, Kosmos Innovation Centre (KIC), for 2017. The enrollment will allow the young men and...
Yara Ghana Limited., a leading fertilizer company, has appointed Mr. Danquah Addo-Yobo as the Managing Director to lead the vision and mission of the company. Danquah Addo-Yobo was the Chief...
Government has set aside an amount of $50 million to buy farm produce into the country’s buffer stock for the 2017 crop season, Press Secretary to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA),...
A five-day international training progrmme for stakeholders in the Agricultural sector to “Promote Agriculture Technology to Improve Productivity and Net Returns for Smallholder Farmers” has...
They call it way of life here in Karni, a remote village far off the Upper West Regional capital, it may seem idyllic, but to many, it’s the end of the rocky road. This is where the region’s...
Many farming communities in the Upper Manya Krobo district of the Eastern region are likely to be hit with severe famine following the destruction of several acres of farms by cattle of nomadic...
A loan of $US24m has been approved by parliament to be used as funding for the establishment of a sugarcane plantation to feed the Komenda Sugar Factory in the Central Region, Trade...
