Tax Raw Cashew Exports
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) is advocating the imposition of taxes on the export of raw cashew to encourage more local processing. Ms. Gifty Klenam, CEO of the authority told the B&FT...
Tag: Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Delays In Supply of Seeds Affect Planting For Food and Jobs Programme
Only 90 farmers out of the 1,000 registered farmers enrolled on the Planting for Food and Jobs Mr Francis Ennor, the Sunyani Municipal Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, says delays in...
Army Worms Destroy Hectares of Farms In Sunyani
Army worms have destroyed about 1,380 hectares of maize farms in the Sunyani Municipality Army worms have destroyed about 1,380 hectares of maize farms in the Sunyani Municipality. In an interview...
Planting For Food & Jobs Commitment Fee Scaring Farmers – NGO
The Centre for Agricultural Policy and Analysis (CAPMA), believes farmers are being scared away from enrolling on the Planting for Food and Jobs programme due to the commitment fees they have to pay...
Planting For Food & Jobs Commitment Fee Scaring Farmers
The Centre for Agricultural Policy and Analysis (CAPMA) believes farmers are being scared away from enrolling on the Planting for Food and Jobs programme due to the commitment fees they have to...
Fewer Farmers Registering For ‘Planting For Food & Jobs’ – Minister
The Minister of State in charge of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Dr. Nurah Gyiele, has said his outfit is struggling to register the targeted 200,000 smallholder farmers under the Planting for...
Fertiliser Smuggling Threatens ‘Food & Jobs’ Program – Minister
A Minister of State at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Dr Nurah Gyiele, has urged residents to help guard against smuggling of fertilisers meant for the Planting for Food & Jobs programme...
Fewer Farmers Registering For ‘Planting For Food & Jobs’
The Minister of State in charge of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Dr. Nurah Gyiele, has said his outfit is struggling to register the targeted 200,000 smallholder farmers under the Planting...
UNIDO Commissions Ultra-Modern Soil & Fertilizer Testing Lab In Ghana
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with support from the Switzerland government through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) has commissioned an ultra-modern...
CSIR Supports ‘Planting For Food and Jobs’ With New Cassava Varieties
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...
Esoko Refutes Allegations of Thwarting Planting For Food and Jobs Project
Esoko, a Ghanaian private company, says it is not thwarting government’s Planting for Food and Jobs project under a contract to register farmers. It explained: “The Ministry of Food and...
Rejoinder: Contractor’s Action Thwarting Planting For Food and Jobs Initiative
We refer to the story titled “Contractor’s action thwarting Planting for Food and Jobs initiative - MoFA“ on GhanaWeb citing GNA as its source on Friday 26th May 2017. We strongly refute the...
Compensate Farmers For Losses Arising Out of Army Worm Havoc – Fmr. MP
Former Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central in the Greater Accra Region, Theophilous Tetteh Chaie, has called on the government to put in place adequate compensation package for farmers whose...
18,200 Hectares of Maize Farm Destroyed
The devastation caused by fall armyworms has affected 18,219.07 hectares of maize farms as at Friday May 26, 2017. So far, nine regions have been affected with farmers losing hundreds of thousands of...
Esoko Accused of Thwarting Planting For Food and Jobs Initiative
Deputy Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), Mr Akaare Damian, says Esoko, a Non-Governmental Organisation(NGO), was working against the progress government’s flagship agric...
Free SHS Committee Inaugurated
Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Education has inaugurated a committee to advise and lead the implementation of the country’s free Senior High School (SHS). The committee constituted...
We’ll Support Government End Nomadic Herdsmen Conflict – Group
The Ghana National Association of Cattle Farmers (GNACAF) has pledged their commitment to support government and the security agencies to bring lasting solution to the trans-human conflicts between...
We’ll Support Gov’t End Nomadic Herdsmen Conflict – Group
The Ghana National Association of Cattle Farmers (GNACAF) has pledged their commitment to support government and the security agencies to bring lasting solution to the trans-human conflicts between...
FDA Working To Discourage Growers Use of Polluted Irrigation Sources
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it is working with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) to discourage growers who use polluted sources of irrigation. A Joy News documentary last week...
Fall Army Worms Invade Farming Communities In Dormaa Ahenkro
Fall army worms have invaded eleven maize farming communities in Dormaa Ahenkro, the Municipal Capital of the Dormaa Central Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region. Three hundred and twenty – four...