Government plans to launch a program dubbed “Planting for Jobs and Investments” a subsidiary of its flagship “Planting for Food and Jobs Policy” geared at creating jobs for the youth and also boosting assemblies revenues. The programme is targeting about three to five million farmers in the cultivation of seven identified cash crops within the next … Read more
African Development Bank (AfDB) has proposed new investment strategies in Africa’s agriculture sector, which, if properly implemented, would effectively alter the market structures around the world in favour of the African farmers of major cash crops like tea, coffee and cocoa. AfDB Vice-President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery, Khaled Sherif, says for the … Read more
Western Regional Minister-designate, Dr Kwaku Afriyie has expressed dissatisfaction with what he described as the undue financial burden placed on cocoa farmers by government. He said the concept of cocoa roads in which the proceeds of cocoa farmers are used in constructing roads leading to communities that grow the cash crop is nothing more than … Read more
Government has set aside an amount of $50 million to buy farm produce into the country’s buffer stock for the 2017 crop season, Press Secretary to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Ridwan Issah-Kkalifah has revealed. Speaking in an interview with Frontline host Kwame Tutu on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm, he said, the New Patriotic … Read more
Imagine how food and cash crops were produced in the 1900s. Peasant farming held sway at the time across the country. Documents concerning the evolution of farming over the years show steady increase in volume of cash and food crops. Food crop production was carried out in the Southern part of the country and the … Read more
Minister of Food and Agriculture Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna says it is working closely with the private sector and the Ministry of Trade and Industries to set up regulatory boards for three selected tree crops namely; Rubber, Cashew and Oil Palm. Speaking at a Pan African Agribusiness Incubation conference in Accra, Alhaji Limuna said the … Read more