Cocobod To Store Grains
Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo has outlined government’s plans to solve post-harvest losses in the agricultural sector. “COCOBOD’s storage facilities are almost half-empty and this can be used...
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Farmers Urged To Use Improved Production Technologies
A five-day international training progrmme for stakeholders in the Agricultural sector to “Promote Agriculture Technology to Improve Productivity and Net Returns for Smallholder Farmers” has...
Adopt Climate-Smart Agric To Ensure Food Security
Farmers need to adopt climate-smart agriculture to ensure food security, a lecturer at the Department of Geography & Resource Development of the University of Ghana, Legon, Dr Kwadwo Owusu, has said....
Financial System Hostile To Agribusiness – Dr. Abu Sakara
Ghana needs to create a favourable financial system to support the agricultural sector, the 2012 presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr Abu Sakara Foster, has admonished....
Opoku Gakpo Writes: Attention NPP
Let me first say that it was refreshing hearing Minister Designate for Food and Agriculture Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie, outline the New Patriotic Party government’s ‘planting for food and jobs’...
Opoku Gakpo Writes: Attention NPP
Joseph Opoku Gakpo It was refreshing hearing Minister Designate for Food and Agriculture Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie, outline the New Patriotic Party government’s ‘planting for food and jobs’...
Bushfire Kills 2 At Saboba On New Year’s Day
Two women were burnt to death on a rice farm at Saboba in the Northern Region on New Year’s Eve. Narrating the incident to Citi News, a victim of the incident who escaped death by timely...
Busfire Kills 2 At Saboba On New Year’s Day
Two women were burnt to death on a rice farm at Saboba in the Northern Region on New Year’s Eve. Narrating the incident to Citi News, a victim of the incident who escaped death by timely...
Busfire Kills Two At Saboba
Two women were burnt to death on a rice farm at Saboba in the Northern Region. Narrating the incident to Citi News, a victim of the incident who escaped death by timely intervention said “We were...
Fire Kills Two In Saboba
Two women died Saturday evening from bushfire while winnowing and bagging rice at a farmland in Bukob, a small community in the Saboba district of the Northern region. Police have confirmed the...
Creating Impact For Smallholder Farmers In Africa Through Mobile Technology.
Africa’s 33 million smallholder farmers feed an estimated one-third of humanity, and are key to mitigating global challenges such as food security and climate change. Recently, smallholder farming...
NGOs Lead Fight Against Rampant Bushfires
The Feed the Future Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement (ADVANCE) program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has collaborated with the Ghana...
Gov’t Not Showing Commitment To Developing Agric Sector – Journalists
The Ghana Agricultural and Rural Development Journalists Association (GARDJA) is accusing government of not showing enough commitment to developing the country’s agricultural sector. The...
Alhassan Abu Crowned Wa Municipal Best Farmer
Mr Alhassan Abu, 39, was adjuged the best farmer in the Wa Municipal at this year’s Farmers Day celebration held at Busa. Mr Abu, who was among 17 other award winners, had been in the farming...
Subsidy Is A Prerequisite For Food Security – GAWU
Ghana has more arable land than most Western European countries yet we import agricultural products from these countries. That’s according to the General Agriculture Workers Union. Despite the fact...
Robert Crentsil Is 2016 Best Farmer
Robert Crentsil, 42, from Ejumako Enyan Essiem in the Central Region, has been adjudged the 2016 National Best Farmer. He has several plantations comprising cocoa (12 acres), rubber (80 acres),...
We’re Committed To Agric
The Government of Ghana is committed to ensuring a viable agriculture sector in the country in order to alleviate poverty, Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, has said. According to him, the...
Agriculture Not Failing
President John Mahama has refuted claims by the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) that agriculture has been declining under his administration. “The impression created in the media is...
NDC Manifestos Did Not Address Impact of Climate Change On Agriculture
NDC Manifestos did not address impact of climate change on agriculture As the campaign season get heated up, election day draws closer and the debate on who has the best manifesto to rescue the...
Gov’t Collapsing Agricultural Sector
The minority in Parliament has accused the government of collapsing the agriculture sector through poor policies and excessive importation of food products. It again attacked the agriculture...