One woman has been confirmed dead and another severely injured after a building collapsed on them at Assin Akropong in the Assin North Municipality of the Central Region. The incident occurred on...
A southern Indian state announced Sunday it would go to the supreme court to challenge a federal ban on the sale of cows for slaughter, stepping up a showdown with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Cows...
A southern Indian state announced Sunday it would go to the supreme court to challenge a federal ban on the sale of cows for slaughter, stepping up a showdown with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Cows...
Mango farms in the Kintampo North municipality have been massively attacked by mango bacterial black spot disease, raising fears of poor harvest among farmers in the area this season. The farmers say...
Pizza is healthy. And it isn’t healthy. Depending on the type of crust, the amount of cheese and the toppings used, pizza can rank anywhere from nutritionally decent to a diet disaster. Even...
Government and Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) have pledged to support local cocoa processing companies in an effort to ensure that at least 50% of the country’s cocoa is processed. Hackman...
The Canadian High Commissioner in Accra, Ms Heater Cameron, has cut the sod for the construction of an agro-processing factory at Kwaso in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality in the Ashanti Region. The...
The World Food Programme (WFP has launched a five-year integrated agriculture and nutrition project to assist prevent malnutrition among children and pregnant women in Ghana. The project, known as...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it is working with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) to discourage growers who use polluted sources of irrigation. A Joy News documentary last week...
Fall army worms have invaded eleven maize farming communities in Dormaa Ahenkro, the Municipal Capital of the Dormaa Central Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region. Three hundred and twenty – four...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has organized a 3-week capacity building workshop for staff of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) in project planning, policy...
Farmers and other stakeholders are being encouraged to explore the business potential of sweet potato along its value chain. Besides its rich in Vitamin A content, potato is said to have other...
A popular galamsey (illegal mining) operator, popularly known as ‘Cash’, at Wassa Japa Aheneboboano in the Wassa Amenfi East District of the Western Region, is on the run after pouring acid on...
The production of sweet potato in Ghana is less than 20 percent of targeted production levels, mainly hindered by perception that the crop is food for poor people. But the role of sweet potato is...
Some Agric officers are conniving with fertilizer agents under the government’s fertilizer subsidy programme to smuggle large quantities of the chemicals outside the country, Deputy Upper West...
Poultry farmers are yet to be paid after their birds were destroyed due to bird flu attack The constant refusal by government to pay debts owed the poultry industry is fast sending the industry to...
The bane of agriculture in Africa is the disinterest of educated young people in the sector, Ghana’s former President, Mr John Dramani Mahama has said. According to him, the perception that...
Fish processors and traders in the Western Region, have been called upon to adopt hygienic smoking and processing methods, so as to add value to the fish they produce. They have therefore been...
The bane of agriculture in Africa is the disinterest of educated young people in the sector, Ghana’s former President, Mr John Dramani Mahama has said. According to him, the perception that...
Confusion has erupted over the distribution of 20,000 bags of government subsidized NPK fertilizers meant for farmers in the Upper West Region. Agents of Yara Company, suppliers of the fertilizers...
