The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) have called on the private sector to get involved in agricultural development. According to them, the private sector has an important role to play in the development of agriculture, especially in the ministry’s planting for job initiative. This was … Read more
Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei Mensah has vowed not to allow Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the region to misuse state funds. According to him, he would make sure that Internally Generated Funds (IGFs) at the various assemblies are not spent recklessly. He stated that his tenure as the regional minister would … Read more
USAID has pledged its support towards building the capacity of farmers in the Ashanti Region. This is aimed at making farmers economically independent. The Ghana Mission Director of USAID, Andy Karas, during a courtesy call on the Ashanti Regional Minister, stated that USAID will also give support to the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies … Read more
GHANA Mission Director of USAID, Mr. Andy Karas, has announced his outfit’s readiness to partner the Ghanaian government to help farmers in general but with much focus on improving cocoa production in the Ashanti Region. With USD150 million available, Mr. Karas said the USAID was injecting these funds into four areas – agriculture, economic growth, education … Read more
Mr Andy Karas, USAID Mission Director for Ghana, has said the needs of women in agriculture needs to be prioritised to help boost food production, reduce poverty and increase performance in the sector. He said the concern of these women was of national interest; hence, the need to invest in areas that would enable them … Read more
Over 2,000 female beneficiaries of the United States Department for International Development (USAID) Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) Feed the Future mission, have started harvesting 100 acres of orange-fleshed sweet potato cultivated in 70 communities of 17 districts in the Northern Region. This is in line with the USAID-RING ‘orange-fleshed sweet potato’ project, implemented to improve … Read more
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched the Northern Ghana Governance Activity under Feed the Future for the next five years to promote food security in the areas. The programme is a US government’s global hunger and food security initiative with focus on smallholder farmers, particularly women in Northern, Upper West and … Read more