Authorities at the Offinso North District Assembly in the Ashanti Region are eyeing two factories from the government’s flagship One-District-One- Factory programme – a tomato factory and cashew-processing factory – to deal with post-harvest losses in that food-growing enclave. According to District Chief Executive D. K. Asare Boakye, the district will in the next 10 … Read more
Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, Volta Regional Minister has appealed to the Competitive Cashew Initiative and the German Development Co-operation (GIZ), to help increase cashew production in the Region. He said the Region had a vast potential to become the leading cashew producer in the country and pleaded with the institutions to consider the Region on … Read more
Cashew, one of the country’s foremost non-traditional exports, is facing plummeting fortunes after suffering long years of neglect, resulting in it recording a negative 17.5 percent growth in 2014. The cashew industry, the African Cashew Alliance said, requires urgent attention to save it from imminent collapse, which would throw thousands of farmers and others whose … Read more