Shea Butter Export Reaches US$64m; But Its Planting Is Still Seen As Taboo
Export earnings from shea butter products last year reached US$64 million, up from US$52 million in 2014, a 23 percent ...
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Shea Butter Export Reaches US$64 Million
Export earnings from shea butter products last year reached US$64 million, up from US$52 million in 2014, a 23 percent ...
Intensifying Agric Production-Should Other Lives Pay the Price?
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to visit Marks Farm, a dairy (specifically fresh milk) producing farm at ...
Can the SADA Master Plan Unlock Ghana’s Agric Potential?
In recent years, Ghana has spent a minimum of US$1.5 billion of its limited resources to import food annually, while ...
Ghana Losing Out On US$70 Billion Organic Agric Market
The global market for organic agricultural produce is growing in leaps and bounds, but the country is hardly taking advantage ...
State Urged To Adopt Single Rice Seedlings
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Worawora Rice Limited, Mr Yaw Adu Poku, has underscored the need for the country ...
Programme To Ensure Food Security In the North Launched
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched the Northern Ghana Governance Activity under Feed the Future for ...
Delicacy Of Fried Yam And The New Yam Season
Fried yam is a delicacy for many in Ghana. I love it too. It is best taken with hot pepper ...
Banking System Should Be Flexible For Farmers
Israeli Ambassador to Ghana, Ami Mehl has called for a change in the banking system to support, develop and sustain ...
Ghana Must Take Agriculture More Serious
The Israeli Ambassador to Ghana, Ambassador Ami Mehl, has said Ghana cannot continue to do agriculture on a small scale ...
Group Explores Viable Agric Options In Northern Region
A scoping study to understand and identify viable options for interventions to improve climate resilient agriculture in the Northern Region ...
Application Of Science And Technology To Combat Climate Change In Africa
There is no doubt that changes in the earth's climate always occurs, however as a result of human induced activities ...
Climate Crisis In Ghana
The climate of the earth has always been changing and no area on the planet has remained unaffected by climate ...
How Climate Change Is A Creeping Disaster In Ghana!
The Life Story of the Vulnerables to the Impacts of Climate Change in My Region “I am confused and don’t ...
Finding The Sweet Spot Of Africas Agriculture
Africa is a continent where, at least outwardly, we like to celebrate our diversity—the rich variety that can be found ...
Let Us Show Love To Animals-GSPCA
By D. I Laary, GNA Accra, Aug. 31, GNA - Vast majority of land animals raised for human consumption in ...
Kenyan Wins 2016 Norman Borlaug Award For Field Research And Application
A Kenyan research scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute based in Nairobi has won the 2016 Norman Borlaug Award ...
Government Performance In Agric Sector Not Encouraging
A senior lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Robert Aidoo has advised government to ...
Japan, African Countries Team Up To Boost Food Security
Boosting agricultural productivity and food security in Africa will require collective efforts by African countries and their partners. Japan already ...
Expand Fertiliser Subsidy – Oxfam
Oxfam Ghana has appealed to the Government to expand fertiliser subsidy and irrigation programmes to shoot up earnings in the ...