Rubber Cultivation Replacing Cocoa Farms In Eastern Region
Nana Opanbour Bonsu II, President, Concerned Farmers Association of Ghana has expressed dissatisfaction over the clearing of cocoa trees for ...
Tag: Food industry
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 ...
CPC In Talks With Banks To Restructure $20.5m Debt
Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) is in talks with a syndicate of banks to restructure its $20.5 million debt to be ...
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 ...
About 5,000 Acres of Cocoa Farms To Be Destroyed In Ejisu-Juabeng
Scores of farmers at the communities within the Ejisu-Juaben municipality in the Ashanti Region have mounted a strong protest against ...
U/W:Project To Reduce Post Harvest Losses Begins
Implementation of a project to help farmers reduce post harvest losses and improve sustainable nutrition for all has started at ...
COCOBOD To Cut Down Over 100 Million Cocoa Trees
The Ghana COCOBOD is looking forward to cut down about one hundred million cocoa trees by the 2017/2018 crop season. ...
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.’ ...
Cocoa Farmers To Be Compensated
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has disclosed that his outfit has mapped out a payment plan ...
THE ‘JOLLOF WAR’
For some, it is just a ridiculous subject. Somehow it has suddenly assumed a matter of pressing national importance. Which ...
Ace TV Presenter Reveals Secret Behind His Walking Stick
Ace Ghanaian broadcaster, Kwasi Kyei Darkwa, popularly known as KKD has spoken up on the actual reason why he uses a ...
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 ...
COCOBOD Debunks Minority Claims On Cocoa Price
COCOBOD has debunked assertions by the Minority group in Parliament that government is offering cocoa producers a terrible deal by ...
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 ...
COCOBOD Pledges To Contribute Its Quota To Reversing Deforestation
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBD) on Thursday gave the assurance that it would contribute its quota towards reversing the degradation ...
Weight-Related Deaths Can Affect Non-Obese Too
You don’t have to be diagnosed as obese to be at risk of dying from illnesses related to excess weight, ...
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 ...
Cocobod Launches Artificial Pollination Project To Increase Yields
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has launched the artificial hand pollination project aimed at increasing cocoa yields in the country. ...
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, ...
40% of Cocoa Trees To Be Cut; No Bonuses For Farmers
Ghana’s desire to increase cocoa production has suffered a major setback as it has been revealed that 40% of all ...