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USAID Partners Gov’t To Promote Food Safety To Boost Trade

Last Wednesday, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture...

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Government Asked To Implement Policies On Sustainable Intensification Agriculture

Dr Charity Osei Amponsah, Research Scientist at Agriculture, Medicine and Environment Division of CSIR-STEPRI, has...

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MOFA To Engage 10,000 Farmers In Planting For Food and Jobs In Dormaa

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture(MOFA) in Dormaa Central Municipality would engage 10,000 farmers for the Planting...

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Gov’t Justifies 745,000 Jobs In Agric Sector

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has come out to justify the 745,000 jobs that the sector minister, Dr....

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Let’s Discuss Nat’l Policy Issues Devoid of Politics

A Deputy Minister of Agriculture has admonished that national policy issues must be discussed devoid of politics since...

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Gov’t Presents Three-Bedroom House To 2016 National Best Farmer

Government on Friday presented a fully-furnished three-bedroom house to the 2016 National Best Farmer, Mr Robert Bob...

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Statistics: 1 Out of 5 Children In Ghana Is Stunted

Statistics from the Ghana Health Service has shown that one out of five children in the country is stunted. The...

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Gov’t To Launch ‘Planting For Jobs and Investments’ Policy

Government plans to launch a program dubbed “Planting for Jobs and Investments” a subsidiary of its flagship...

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Ghana’s AGOA Strategy Aims To Boost Jobs, Private Sector Growth

US Ambassador Robert Porter Jackson joined officials from the Ministry of Trade and Industry at a validation workshop...

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Agric Ministry Dispatches Chemicals To Combat Army Worm In U/W

Government, through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture(MOFA) has released over one thousand litres of chemicals to...

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Canadian Gov’t Injects C$125 Million Into Ghana’s Agric Sector

The Canadian government has strengthened its commitment towards boosting Ghana’s food security by injecting 125...

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UG Releases Three New WACCI Hybrid Maize Varieties

The National Variety Release and Registration Committee of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, has approved and...

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GEPA Urged To Take Decisive Action On Export Sector Challenges

Mr Carlos Ahenkorah, a Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, has challenged the Ghana Export Promotion Authority...

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We Expect Bumper Harvest At Dahwenya Farm

The Ag. Executive Director of the National Service Scheme, Mustapha Ussif, on Thursday met with workers on the...

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Ghana To Pass National Food Donors Encouragement Bill

Chairman for Parliamentary select committee on Food, agriculture and Member of Parliament for Berekum West, Hon. Kwaku...

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7 Agro Companies Honored At GhanaVeg Awards

Management of GhanaVeg Programme which seeks to improve and sustain vegetable productivity in Ghana, an initiative...

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Ban On Vegetable Exports To EU To Be Lifted September

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture is working with stakeholders to have the ban on vegetable exports to the European...

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Mass Infestation of Maize Farms By Armyworms; Farmers Abandon Farms In Despair

The infestation of fall armyworms on maize farms in the Ashanti Region continues to worsen despite efforts by the...

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NAFCO Leads Initiative To Refurbish Warehouses

Work has already begun on the refurbishment of state-owned warehouses across the country as the Ministry of Food and...