33% of Cocoa Trees Unproductive
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), Mr. Boahen Aidoo has indicated on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm that , government will intensify the provision of hybrid seedlings that have...
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Market Women Adopt New Technology To Eliminate Post-Harvest Losses
Market women in major market centers in the Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana have adopted the use of a new storage technology called “Purdue Improved Crop...
Coconuts Spots In Accra On the Rise
Coconut selling is a trade most Ghanaian youth are familiar with. The trade in recent times has become one of the fast growing fruits trade in the country which many have cashed in and made it a full...
Rise In Coconuts Spots In Accra
Coconut selling is a trade most Ghanaian youth are familiar with. The trade in recent times has become one of the fast growing fruits trade in the country which many have cashed in and made it a full...
Meridian Ports Services Embarks On Tree Planting Exercise In Tema
In furtherance of its long-standing pledge to conserve the environment, the Meridian Ports Services Limited (MPS), has embarked on a massive tree planting exercise along the Tema Beach Road, the site...
Cassava, Soya Beans To Rescue Economy From Declining Cocoa Prices
Players in the agric sector have made fresh appeals to develop other export yielding ventures to increase Ghana’s export revenue. The renewed calls also come at a time that export revenue from...
Let’s Process More Cocoa As Beverage – COCOBOD CEO
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahene-Aidoo, has urged major players in the cocoa chain to do more to promote cocoa as a beverage throughout the world....
Nestle, Others Agree To End Deforestation In Ghana, Ivory Coast
The world’s largest chocolate makers, including Nestlé, Mars and Mondelez, and cocoa traders, such as Cargill and Olam, have agreed to co-operate in ending deforestation in key cocoa growing...
Rice Farmers Record Bumper Harvest But Worried Over Lack of Ready Market
Rice farmers in the Volta Region who complained of losses in the past are now heaving a sigh of relief as their situation has been turned around with recent bumper harvest. The farmers are...
Agric Insurance Offers Risk Mitigation To Farmers
Experts say insurance should be part of any risk management strategy. However, the agricultural sector is susceptible to many challenges. Uncertainties in weather conditions which subsequently...
MP Wants More Support For Staple Crop Farmers
Former Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, John Kwabena Oti Bless, has urged government to provide more funds to staple crop farmers whose produce directly feed the nation. He...
We Are Destroying Ghana
News that some fishermen are using the cancer-causing agent, formalin, to preserve salted tilapia, popularly known as ‘Koobi’, is, indeed, disturbing, particularly since this is not the first...
Shea Nut Industry Can Employ 600K Northerners – Awal
Business Development Minister Alhaji Mohammed Awal has revealed that cotton and shea nut production are critical components of the industrialisation transformation agenda of government for job...
Funding ‘cocoa Roads’ With Proceeds From Cocoa Farmers Is Exploitative
Western Regional Minister-designate, Dr Kwaku Afriyie has expressed dissatisfaction with what he described as the undue financial burden placed on cocoa farmers by government. He said the concept of...
Cocobod To Store Grains
Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo has outlined government’s plans to solve post-harvest losses in the agricultural sector. “COCOBOD’s storage facilities are almost half-empty and this can be used...
Government Urged To Encourage Investment Into NTEs
Mr Albert Atuah Amponsah, the Managing Proprietor of Albe Farms, producers of pineapples and vegetables, has called on the Government to formulate a policy to encourage investment into Non...
Farmers, Processors In Distress Over Seasonality of Mangoes
The seasonal nature of mango farming has left both farmers and fruit processors in distress, as the farmers complain of lack of market in the harvest season, when there is a glut, whilst the...
GAIP To Commence Pilot of Livestock Insurance
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...
GREL Invests GH¢200m To Expand Operations
The management of Ghana Rubber Estates Limited (GREL) has committed GH¢200 million to expand the operations of the company. The investment drive, which the company said would be executed in two...
How Do Women Married To Men With Small Manhood Manage
I’m yet to come across a lady who loves small d-ick. To some ladies, the size and length of the rod matter to the extreme and to others, either small or big cassava, it all depends on how the man...