Running of the Bulls Thai Style
Languidly ploughing flooded paddy-fields, Thailand's buffaloes don't usually strike people as the quickest of beasts. But farmers in eastern Thailand on Sunday showed off their fastest bovines in a...
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Dangote Invests $4.6 Billion Into Farming In Nigeria
Dangote Group, controlled by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, plans to invest $3.8 billion in sugar and rice and $800 million in dairy production in the next three years as the company seeks to...
Use Local Rice For School Feeding Programme – Group
The Ghana Rice Inter-Professional Body (GRIB), has called on government to procure made in Ghana rice for government agencies and institutions such as Ghana prisons and schools on government’s...
Use Local Rice For School Feeding Programme – Group
The Ghana Rice Inter-Professional Body (GRIB), has called on government to procure made in Ghana rice for government agencies and institutions such as Ghana prisons and schools on government’s...
Tono Rice Farmers Fear Loss of 400,000 Tonnes of Produce
Rice farmers at the Tono Irrigation site at Navrongo in the Upper East Region says, over four thousand metric tonnes of rice cultivated this year could go waste, if the government does not provide...
There’s No Plastic Rice On Market –C/R FDA Boss Allays Fears
Central Regional Boss of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Albert Ankomah, has implored Ghanaians especially people in the region to disregard reports circulating on social media that there is...
10,000 Rice Farmers Receive Sponsorship
Dalex Finance and Leasing Company Ltd. (DALEX) has announced that it will, in partnership with Shinkaafa Buni Rice Farmers Association (SHINKAAFA BUNI), to grant credit to over 10,000 rice farmers in...
Namoale Hit Out At FDA Over Laxity In Prosecuting Fake Food and Drug Dealers
Former Food and Agric minister, Nii Amansah Namoale, has hit out at the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) over its seeming laxity to prosecute fake drug and food dealers in the country. He wondered why...
FDA Must Do All It Can To Keep Us Safe!
IN our editorial comment on Tuesday, June 20, 2017 we commended the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) for their proactiveness, which led to the arrest of two women suspected to be involved in artificial...
We Found No ‘plastic Rice’ In Ghana
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has rubbished claims that there is a so-called plastic rice on the Ghanaian market as alleged through videos circulating on social media and elsewhere. Similar...
How the FDA Solved Puzzling Adulterated Rice Mystery
Social media has been awash with various reports accompanied with images, indicating the circulation of plastic rice on Ghanaian markets. However, The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has rubbished...
DCE Proposes Rice Factory For Asunafo South
The District Chief Executive for for Asunafo South in the Brong Ahafo Region, has proposed the establishment of a rice processing plant for the district in line with government’s ‘One district...
We Found No Plastic Rice In Ghana
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has rubbished claims that there is a supposed plastic rice on the Ghanaian market, despite several videos alleging the existence of such product. Similar reports...
There Is No Plastic Rice On the Ghanaian Market – FDA Asserts
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has categorically denied rumours that there is plastic rice on the Ghanaian market. Addressing the media at a press conference in Accra on Friday, June 23, 2017,...
Grains Dev’t Board, SARI To Help Gov’t Bolster Local Seed Supply
Government will be collaborating with the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) and the Grains Development Board to overcome the deficit in the supply of seeds for the ‘Planting for Food...
The True Story Behind the ‘Plastic Rice’ Videos
Since the beginning of May this year, social networks across Africa and its Diaspora have been saturated with photos and videos showing horrified people demonstrating the presence of plastic in food...
Investigative Videos! The True Story Behind the ‘Plastic Rice’
Since the beginning of May this year, social networks across Africa and its Diaspora have been saturated with photos and videos showing horrified people demonstrating the presence of plastic in food...
Volta Region: Test Planting Begins For Bred Rice
The Crop Research Institute (CRI) of the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is test-planting Ghana’s first locally bred rice varieties at Dzamlome in the Kadjebi District of the...
New Rice Variety To Be Cultivated In the North
Mr Salifu Saeed, the Northern Regional Minister has given the assurance that government was ready to support the introduction of a new rice variety and its cultivation in the Northern Region for...
Northern Region To Cultivate Rice For Exportation
Mr Salifu Saeed, the Northern Regional Minister has given the assurance that government was ready to support the introduction of a new rice variety and its cultivation in the Northern Region for...