U/E: Irrigation Farmers Say They’ve Lost Millions of Cedis Due To Poor Harvest
Hundreds of irrigation farmers in the Bawku West District of the Upper East region say thay have lost millions of ...
Tag: Agronomy
Gov’t Warned Over Moves To Modernise Agriculture
Government’s attempts to modernise agriculture in the country could have “disastrous consequences” for the sector and consumers, the General Agricultural ...
FAO Warns Against Over Reliance On Pesticides To Fight Fall Armyworms
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Accra has warned against the over reliance on pesticides in the treatment of ...
IMANI Punches Holes Into ‘Planting For Food & Jobs’ Program
Policy Think Tank, IMANI Africa, has questioned the viability of government’s biggest agricultural policy dubbed ‘Planting for Food and Jobs.’ ...
Agribusiness Expert Outlines Ways Farmers, Others Can Eliminate Poverty
Countries in West Africa, including Ghana, have not made the best out of agribusiness due to the erroneous impressing that ...
Ghana To Host West Africa Fertilizer Agribusiness Conference In July
The CRU Events (Commodities Research Unit) has partnered the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) to host the West Africa Fertilizer ...
Galaxy International School Wins Gold At International Competition
Galaxy International School, one of Ghana’s prestigious schools, emerged one of the biggest winners at Genius Science Olympiad held at Oswego ...
Savannah Agric Research Inst Engage Farmers On Fall Armyworm
The Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) in the Northern Region has engaged some farmers in the Tolon District on impending ...
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 government ...
Banks To Look Into Agric Financing
Bankers are increasingly becoming amenable to agriculture financing, which they have long avoided for its unduly risky nature, on the ...
11% Use of Improved Seeds Threat To Ghana’s Food Security
The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has indicated the use of improved seeds by maize farmers ...
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, ...
Nest Agro Foods To Transform Vegetable Production In VR Through Franchise Farming
The Volta Region is set to become the hub of fresh organic vegetable production in the country as efforts are ...
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 ...
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 ...
Agriculture Answer To Africa’s Misery
The quickest way out of Africa’s economic woes is through agriculture, Dr Rufaro Madakadze, Programme Officer for Training and Education ...
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 ...
No Need To Compensate For Armyworm Losses
Government is not likely to provide any compensation for losses incurred by farmers as a result of army worm infestation. ...
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 ...
Ministry of Agric Complicit In Subsidized Fertilizer Smuggling- Minister
Some Agric officers are conniving with fertilizer agents under the government’s fertilizer subsidy programme to smuggle large quantities of the ...