The Ghana Free Zones Board (GFZB) has presented an amount of GH¢10,000.00 to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) to support the celebration of this year’s Farmers Day. According to Head of...
More than 17,000 people in Ghana die annually as a result of exposure to air pollution, with children and women being the most affected victims, Mrs Gina McCarthy, a US Environmental Protection...
The Ghana Free Zones Board (GFZB) has presented a cash donation of ¢10,000 to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) to support the celebration of this year’s Farmers’ Day. According to the...
Trouble that hover around credit to smallholder farmers, who constitute about 85% of the agricultural workforce, linger on as a major challenge affecting the growth of the sector in the country, a...
The Dangote Group of Companies is set to revolutionise agric production in Africa with a two billion-dollar fertilizer plant that will produce for countries within the sub-region at a significantly...
Ghanaian farmers will soon benefit from the import of cheap fertilizer from the Dangote Group of companies in Nigeria, as the firm constructs the biggest fertilizer plant in the world located in...
Many African smallholder farmers and farm communities are oblivious to the fact that they are experiencing low crop and animal yields partly due to climate change. In countries like Ghana, many are...
The global community is not on course to end hunger by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) deadline of 2030, authors a new report on hunger trends across the world have warned. The...
Let me begin my write up by drawing inspiration from a speech delivered by late Rev. Martin Luther King Jnr., in 1967 at the First Annual Conference on New Politics, in Washington DC, USA, “…..so...
GNA Feature by Kwabia Owusu-Mensah Kumasi, Oct 04, GNA - 'In Africa, when an old man dies, it is a library burning' (Hampate Ba, 1960, UNESCO conference). This quotation implies that in Africa, when...
Ten countries (Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, the United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda) met in a two-day technical workshop from 22 to 23 September 2016...
Despite the clear potential to boost rice production at the regional level in Africa, most countries on the Continent continue to rely heavily on imports for meeting their rice consumption needs,...
The flagbearer of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Mr Kwasi Addai, popularly known as Odike is urging Ghanaians to reject the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the December 7 polls....
One has to admire President Mahama and his NDC apparatchiks for their incredible dexterity in disinformation metastasising, or to put it euphemistically, their adroitness in systematic propagation of...
A longstanding land dispute which continues to brew raw tensions in the Bole district of the Northern region has threatened the survival of a $3,139,383 poverty alleviation project. The project,...
Vietnamese rice investors and exporters drawn from about 14 companies are in the country to explore investment opportunities in rice production, processing, storage, marketing and distribution. The...
Management and conservation of natural resources in Northern Ghana- Adopting the PES module By Samuel Adadi Akapule The Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions have the highest incidence of...
The Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions have the highest incidence of poverty, food insecurity and the least climate resilient. As smallholder farmers, decreasing annual rainfall, erratic...
There are strong indications that the majority of Ghanaians want the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) government to retrieve all monies lost by the state through corruption scandals,...
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Worawora Rice Limited, Mr Yaw Adu Poku, has underscored the need for the country to adopt a single rice seedlings for local rice production in the country. That,...
