Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says it secured US$1.8 billion syndicated loan from a consortium of banks to allow it purchase cocoa beans for the 2016/2017 crop season beginning next month will hit Bank...
Export earnings from shea butter products last year reached US$64 million, up from US$52 million in 2014, a 23 percent growth over the previous year, according to the latest figures from the Ghana...
Export earnings from shea butter products last year reached US$64 million, up from US$52 million in 2014, a 23 percent growth over the previous year, according to the latest figures from the Ghana...
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to visit Marks Farm, a dairy (specifically fresh milk) producing farm at Lowville - New York State, USA. The farm is run with some of the most advanced...
Allegations of discrimination in the supply of farm inputs to cocoa farmers have been denied by the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod). Accusations swirled that cocoa farmers affiliated to the governing...
In recent years, Ghana has spent a minimum of US$1.5 billion of its limited resources to import food annually, while some eight million hectares of arable land continue to waste away in the Northern...
A fundamental problem of the country’s cashew sector is the absence of a regulatory framework and body to manage, control and sustainably grow the sector, the Cashew Industry Association of Ghana...
The global market for organic agricultural produce is growing in leaps and bounds, but the country is hardly taking advantage of it, the Ghana Ecological Organic Agriculture Platform (GEOAP), has...
Malik Yakubu put a up a great performance to beat defending champion Kassim Mohammed and win the 29th Accra Milo Marathon on Wednesday. The 42.2 km race started from the Nungua Barrier and it ended...
Fred Nuamah, Chief Executive of Ghana Movie Awards, has expressed joy and profound excitement that ladies “can now testify” about him, a comment understood to mean that he now has a female lover,...
Charcoal burning is gradually taking over fishing activities along the Volta Lake. Development experts argue would further aggravate the already worsening water level of the lake and deplete fish...
GlaxoSmithKline has appointed Emma Walmsley, its current head of consumer healthcare, as its new chief executive. Ms. Walmsley, who joined the UK's biggest drugmaker in 2010 from L'Oreal, will...
The issue of who cooks in a relationship is a delicate one. It has caused a lot of debate in recent years with calls for men to learn how to cook and not make it a sole responsibility of women. It...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched the Northern Ghana Governance Activity under Feed the Future for the next five years to promote food security in the areas....
An angry Chinese small scale miner, Zeng Wuachin, has sacked his personal driver for allegedly stealing frog meat from his stew. The Chinese who operates at Dunkwa-On-Offin is said to have contracted...
Fried yam is a delicacy for many in Ghana. I love it too. It is best taken with hot pepper or boiled beans. You will usually not find too many vendors engaging in the sale of fried yam in the lean...
In a bid to increase cocoa production in the country, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has raised and distributed 60 million quality hybrid seedlings and four million permanent shade tree seedlings to...
Cocobod has within the last two years distributed a total of 110 million hybrid cocoa seedlings to farmers across the nation as part of scale up effort to boost production levels. Dr. Stephen Kwabena...
The Minority Spokesperson on Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has rubbished President John Mahama’s claim that the cocoa industry is thriving. The New Patriotic Party (NPP)...
Israeli Ambassador to Ghana, Ami Mehl has called for a change in the banking system to support, develop and sustain the agriculture sector in the country. “If a farmer borrows at the bank to...
