Robert Crentsil Is 2016 Best Farmer
Robert Crentsil, 42, from Ejumako Enyan Essiem in the Central Region, has been adjudged the 2016 National Best Farmer. He has several plantations comprising cocoa (12 acres), rubber (80 acres),...
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Nduom Cuts Sod For Assin Breku Rice Project
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Groupe Nduom (GN), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has officially cut sod for the construction of a 100-tonne rice milling factory at Assin Breku in the Central Region. This...
We’ll Give Your Wards Scholarship In 2017 – Sherry Ayittey Tells Fishermen
The Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Ms Sherry Ayittey has announced a scholarship package to be awarded to children of all fishermen across the country. She made the announcement...
Oil Cash Won’t Distract My Gov’t From Growing Agric Sector – Akufo-Addo
The 2016 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reiterated his commitment to developing the agricultural sector when given the mandate the govern...
Nana Addo Assures Farmers, Fisherfolk of Dividends Under NPP Gov’t
The New Patriotic Party presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has congratulated Ghanaian farmers and fisherfolk and promised to make the country’s agriculture sector more modern and...
Gov’t To Increase Investment In Agric – Amissah-Arthur
Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has stated that the NDC government would continue to increase public investment in the Agricultural Sub-sector. Mr. Amissah-Arthur made the statement at the 32nd...
We’re Committed To Agric
The Government of Ghana is committed to ensuring a viable agriculture sector in the country in order to alleviate poverty, Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, has said. According to him, the...
We’re Living Witnesses To Mahama’s Achievements
The paramount chief of Gbi Traditional area, Togbega Gabusu VI, has noted he and his people are living witnesses to the achievements of the John Mahama government. According to him, his jurisdiction...
Gov’t Acquires Land To Relocate Fulani Herdsmen
The government has acquired 10,000 hectares in the northern part of the country to relocate Fulani herdsmen and their cattle from troubled areas of the country, President John Dramani Mahama has...
Accra Graves To Be Recycled
In the wake of overcrowding in our public cemeteries and the scarcity of land in Accra for the creation of new ones, the Metro Public Health Department (MPHD) of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA)...
We Are Kiiling The Goose That Lays The Golden EGG
This year’s farmers’ day will be celebrated on Friday 4th November, 2016 and a fair, passionate and objective minded columnist like me, would certainly make time and space to celebrate our...
Akufo-Addo Replicates 2015 Farmer’s Day Message With Inconsistencies
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed his appreciation to farmers and fisherfolk across the country for their hard work with a similar...
NPP Won’t Neglect Farmers
The agricultural sector has been largely neglected under the government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the last eight years, Nana Akufo-Addo has said. “Budgetary allocation to the...
Today Is Farmers’ Day
Today, Friday November 4, marks Ghana’s 32nd National Farmers' Day celebrations. National Farmers' Day is commemorated each year to honour Ghanaian farmers and fishermen. The occasion is also used...
Gov’t To Distribute One Million Digi-Box Nationwide
Deputy Communications Minister, Ato Sarpong, has hinted of government’s plans to distribute about a million free digital boxes to about 4.8 million households with television sets in the country....
It’s Sad Listening To Mahama Sometimes
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says recent utterances by President John Mahama, coupled with his actions and inactions over the last 8 years,...
Agro-Chemicals Harmful To Men?
That agro-chemicals pose a threat to humans cannot be disputed. This fact is unfortunately not realised or respected by a majority of our peasant farmers. This fact is aggravated due to the fact that...
Gas Explosion Kills 33 Chinese Miners
Dozens of miners are confirmed dead after a gas explosion at a coal mine in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, according to state-run news agency Xinhua. The explosion happened at about...
Photos From the Late George Forest’s Burial
The casket in the form of organ The mortal remains of multiple award winning sound engineer, King George Forest was laid to rest on Thursday, November 3. The funeral ceremony which was held at the...
Tree Crushes Chainsaw Operator
A 62-year-old chainsaw operator met his untimely death when a tree he was felling in a cocoa farm crushed him. The deceased, Padmore Amponsah also known as Kofi Kyere died on the stop after the tree...