We’ll Replace Food Imports With ‘Planting For Food and Jobs’ Campaign — Afriyie Akoto
The government will, by April this year, launch an audacious campaign to turn farmlands and backyards into a huge food ...
Tag: agriculture
Emergency UN Meeting In Harare Over Armyworm Outbreak
International experts will hold emergency talks in Harare on Tuesday to tackle an outbreak of crop-eating "armyworm" caterpillars advancing across ...
Fall Armyworms Invade Maize Farms At Afari and Obuasi
The plant protection and regulatory services directorate of the Food and Agriculture Ministry has confirmed the invasion of fall armyworms ...
Agriculture Sector Has Key To Unlock Wealth – Kosmos Energy
Mr. Joe Mensah, Country Manager and Vice President of Kosmos Energy, has stated that the agriculture sector has the key ...
Scale Up Effort To Promote Bamboo and Rattan Production
Ghana has been asked to scale up the effort to increase bamboo and rattan production in the country to serve ...
Fall Armyworm ‘threatens African Farmers’ Livelihoods’
Scientists are calling for urgent action to halt the spread of a pest that is destroying maize crops and spreading ...
GAIP To Commence Pilot of Livestock Insurance
The Ghana Agricultural Insurance Pool (GAIP) is introducing a livestock insurance scheme to cushion farmers in the event of losses ...
Five Million Cedis Secured To Start Agricultural Census
The Ghana Statistical Service has secured some funding to embark on a nationwide agricultural census to collect data on farmers, ...
Second Rubber Factory To Be Constructed In W/R; Set To Create Over 2,000 Jobs
The Ghana Rubber Estate Limited (GREL) is to begin the construction of a second factory this year in the Western ...
KNUST Makes Progress In Effort To Boost Energy Supply
Researchers at the Technology Consultancy Centre (TCC), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), say they are making progress ...
Dr. Afriyie Akoto Misinformed Parliament On Plant Breeders Bill
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has expressed disappointment in the attempt by the Minister of Agriculture and some ...
Kosmos Energy Launches 2nd Youth In Agritech Challenge
Kosmos Energy, one of the partners of Ghana’s Jubilee Field, has launched a second edition of its Agritech challenge dubbed ...
Kosmos Admits 100 New Young Entrepreneurs
Kosmos Energy Ghana has admitted a new batch of 100 new young entrepreneurs into its social investment programme, Kosmos Innovation ...
Yara Ghana Appoints 1st Ghanaian Managing Director
Yara Ghana Limited., a leading fertilizer company, has appointed Mr. Danquah Addo-Yobo as the Managing Director to lead the vision ...
Gov’t Gives $50 Million For ‘Planting For Food & Jobs’ Project
Government has set aside an amount of $50 million to buy farm produce into the country’s buffer stock for the ...
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 ...
Failing the Disabled
They call it way of life here in Karni, a remote village far off the Upper West Regional capital, it ...
Famine Imminent In Upper Manya Krobo As Fulani Herdsmen Destroy Farms
Many farming communities in the Upper Manya Krobo district of the Eastern region are likely to be hit with severe ...
$24m For Komenda Sugarcane Plantation
A loan of $US24m has been approved by parliament to be used as funding for the establishment of a sugarcane ...