President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday launched the 10-year Cashew Development Plan, in Wenchi, in the Brong Ahafo Region, a plan aimed at diversifying Ghanaian agriculture. Recounting a...
Last Wednesday, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture hosted a forum to review progress made on the development of a pilot food...
Dr Charity Osei Amponsah, Research Scientist at Agriculture, Medicine and Environment Division of CSIR-STEPRI, has called on government to put measures in place to help implement the sustainability...
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture(MOFA) in Dormaa Central Municipality would engage 10,000 farmers for the Planting for Food and jobs programme in the Dormaa Central Municipality, Mr Munkaila...
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has come out to justify the 745,000 jobs that the sector minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, touts as the success story of the first phase of the Planting...
A Deputy Minister of Agriculture has admonished that national policy issues must be discussed devoid of politics since that is one of the surest ways of developing the country. “We will only...
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...
Statistics from the Ghana Health Service has shown that one out of five children in the country is stunted. The development is even severe in the Northern Region as 37% of children in the region are...
Government plans to launch a program dubbed “Planting for Jobs and Investments” a subsidiary of its flagship “Planting for Food and Jobs Policy” geared at creating jobs for the youth and...
US Ambassador Robert Porter Jackson joined officials from the Ministry of Trade and Industry at a validation workshop on Ghana’s African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Strategy. The meeting...
Government, through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture(MOFA) has released over one thousand litres of chemicals to help fight fall armyworms in the Upper West region. The Upper West regional crop...
The Canadian government has strengthened its commitment towards boosting Ghana’s food security by injecting 125 million Canadian Dollars into the nation’s agricultural sector. This timely...
The National Variety Release and Registration Committee of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, has approved and recommended three new WACCI hybrid maize varieties to be released onto the market for...
Mr Carlos Ahenkorah, a Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, has challenged the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) to take decisive action to deal with current difficulties in the export sector...
The Ag. Executive Director of the National Service Scheme, Mustapha Ussif, on Thursday met with workers on the Scheme’s Dahwenya Farm in the Greater Accra Region, together with some officials of...
Chairman for Parliamentary select committee on Food, agriculture and Member of Parliament for Berekum West, Hon. Kwaku Agyenim-Boateng has lauded the National Food Donors Encouragement Bill,...
Management of GhanaVeg Programme which seeks to improve and sustain vegetable productivity in Ghana, an initiative supported by the Netherlands Embassy, has rewarded seven agro-based companies in the...
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture is working with stakeholders to have the ban on vegetable exports to the European Union lifted in the next three months. That’s the assurance from the Minister...
The infestation of fall armyworms on maize farms in the Ashanti Region continues to worsen despite efforts by the government to manage the spread of the pests. About 62,627 hectares of maize farms...
Work has already begun on the refurbishment of state-owned warehouses across the country as the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) prepares for an expected bumper harvest at the back of the...
