The World Bank (WB), with funding from its Climate Investment Fund, has launched a US$5.5 million project to mitigate the impact of climate change in the country. The five-year project, spanning...
Government on Friday presented a fully-furnished three-bedroom house to the 2016 National Best Farmer, Mr Robert Bob Crentsil, at a handing-over ceremony at Gomoa-Aprah in the Gomoa East District of...
Former President John Mahama, on Friday, said African leaders must be bold and take the destiny of the region into the hands of Africans. During his visit to Nigeria, Mr. Mahama spoke on...
Just like the one constituency-one million dollars policy is receiving some green light, so is its counterpart policy, the one village-one dam beginning to see some daylight… President Nana...
It may be a mere coincidence when President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last week during his encounter with some selected journalists in Accra hinted that his government will do a thorough research...
A kind of Japanese seaweed that is considered an invasive species in the United States is actually serving an important role in restoring barren and vulnerable coastlines, US researchers said Monday....
With only meagre belongings stuffed into backpacks and duffel bags, tens of thousands of Myanmar migrants have streamed home across the Thai border over the past two weeks. But it is not a joyous...
A former dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor George Tawia Odamtten, has cautioned the public against eating ‘kaakro’, mashed plantain, made into balls and...
As part of measures to revamp the agricultural sector of the Ghana Prisons Service to increase food production and to generate income to supplement government’s budgetary allocation, the Service...
Though it has about 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land, Africa’s net food import is predicted to grow from $39bn in 2016 to over $110bn by 2025. Food production is desperately low due in...
Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease chronic food shortages for the remote region's starving millions. Subsistence...
A Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Mr George Oduro, has stated that the government has engaged about 6,150 farmers under its ‘Planting for food and jobs programme’ in the Central Region....
The Crop Research Institute under the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has introduced three new improved varieties of cassava seeds this year for farmers to support planting for...
As part of measures to provide market for tonnes of food expected from the Planting for Food and Jobs programme, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture is to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...
The EU's chief Brexit negotiator has emphasised there will have to be some form of customs controls between NI and the Republic after Brexit. Michel Barnier was addressing at a joint session of the...
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), has began a sensitisation programme to engage stakeholders and Farmer-Based Organisations (FBOs) on government’s ‘Planting For Food and Jobs’...
Parliament has been asked to declare an 'agricultural state of emergency' as an armyworm invasion puts a GHC560m agricultural project at 'serious' risk. Describing the invasion as requiring urgent...
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture will on Monday, May 8 begin a nationwide tour to meet stakeholders over the government’s flagship programme in the sector, Planting for Foods and Jobs. The tour...
A former Deputy Agriculture Minister is calling for an end to the bastardisation of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) technology as a bad science for food production. Dr. Ahmed Alhassan Yakubu says...
The General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) of Ghana has lauded the ‘Planting for Food and Job’ project by the ruling government. GAWU says such an initiative is “seeking to increase food...
