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NAFTA Foes, Supporters Debate Renegotiation

With talks to begin in August to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, dozens of industry, agriculture,...

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Anger In Nepal’s South Threatens Landmark Polls

Ganesh Yadav was shot by police during deadly protests that roiled southern Nepal in 2015, but he is ready to return to...

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China’s Hydropower Frenzy Drowns Sacred Mountains

Towering walls of concrete entomb lush forests on mountainsides in southwest China as workers toil on the dry riverbed...

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The Prize-Winning Tech Helping Ghana’s Farmers To Grow

Agyei Douglas is a farmer who grows vegetables near Kumasi in Ghana's central Ashanti region. He used to struggle to...

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Is Farming In Ghana Punishment?

It is predictable that if you asked a lower primary kid to draw a hard worker; he or she would draw a farmer.  Ask...

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Minority Dares Cocobod CEO To Come Public On Stabilisation Fund

The Minority in Parliament is challenging the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), Joseph Aidoo,...

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NPP Gov’t Is Cheating Cocoa Farmers

The Minority in Parliament is accusing government of offering cocoa farmers a terrible deal with its decision not...

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Nutrition Policy Forum Held In Bimbilla

A nutrition policy forum was held in Bimbilla in the Northern Region. The Head of Programs for Grameen Ghana, a...

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Volta Region: Test Planting Begins For Bred Rice

The Crop Research Institute (CRI) of the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is test-planting...

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7 Agro Companies Honored At GhanaVeg Awards

Management of GhanaVeg Programme which seeks to improve and sustain vegetable productivity in Ghana, an initiative...

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Government Urged To Insure ‘planting For Food and Jobs’ Project

he planting for food and jobs program is an initiative by the Ministry of food and Agriculture. The Ghana Agriculture...

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Timeabu Cocoa Farmers Thwart Gov’t’s ‘Tree On the Farm’ Initiative

Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms,...

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Kwame Baffoe Resigns

Maverick Brong Ahafo Regional Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe has revealed that he has...

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Mass Infestation of Maize Farms By Armyworms; Farmers Abandon Farms In Despair

The infestation of fall armyworms on maize farms in the Ashanti Region continues to worsen despite efforts by the...

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Cow Vigilantes Arrested For Assault On Indian Officials

Eight men have been arrested for violently ambushing a government convoy transporting cows in northwest India, police...

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Man Spends Months At Ankaful Prison Instead of Ankaful Hospital

A 61-Year-Old farmer, Kwesi Ofori, who has been in prison custody for six years and four months for murder has been...

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Timeabu Cocoa Farmers Heighten Risk of Climate Change As They Cut Down Trees On Farms

Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms,...

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Cocoa Farmers Schooled On “CSSVD”

Mr Seidu Mahama, Suhum Municipal Best Farmer for two successive years, has called on traditional authorities to assist...

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Rain Causes Havoc In Axim

A heavy rain on Monday morning has wrecked havoc at Axim in the Nzema East district of the Western Region, with many...