Akufo-Addo Launches 10-Year Cashew Development Plan
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday launched the 10-year Cashew Development Plan, in Wenchi, in the Brong Ahafo Region, ...
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Thirteen Factories To Be Established Under 1D1F In Central Region In 2018
Thirteen companies have gone through documentation processes to establish factories under the “one district, one factory” initiative of the government ...
I Have Not Received My Awards; 2016 Best Farmer Cries Foul
The 2016 National Best Farmer says he is disappointed in the government for reneging on the promise to build him ...
Gov’t To Launch ‘Planting For Jobs and Investments’ Policy
Government plans to launch a program dubbed “Planting for Jobs and Investments” a subsidiary of its flagship “Planting for Food ...
Dangote Invests $4.6 Billion Into Farming In Nigeria
Dangote Group, controlled by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, plans to invest $3.8 billion in sugar and rice and $800 ...
Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese DCE Nominee Finally Confirmed
Members of the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District Assembly in the Central Region have today (Tuesday) voted to confirm the President’s District Chief ...
Borneo’s Orangutans In ‘alarming’ Decline, Study Warns
The orangutan population on the island of Borneo has shrunk by a quarter in the last decade, researchers said Friday, ...
Prisons Begin Agric Revamp
As part of measures to revamp the agricultural sector of the Ghana Prisons Service to increase food production and to ...
Ghana Targets $10 Billion From Non-Traditional Exports
The government has targeted generating $10 billion annually in non-traditional export earnings within the next four years, Ms. Gifty Kekeli ...
Exim Bank To Support MMDAs With GHC100,000 Each
The Exim Bank Ghana is to support the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) with GH¢100,000 each to promote the ...
Will Ghana Get A Factory In Every District?
When Nana Addo Dankwa Afufo-Addo, announced a year ago, as the leading opposition contender for the presidency, that if elected ...
Albino Orangutan Named ‘Alba’ After Global Appeal
A conservation group said Monday it has chosen the name Alba for a rare albino orangutan rescued from captivity in ...
Public Asked To Name Rare Albino Orangutan
The public are being asked to name a rare albino orangutan rescued in the Indonesian part of Borneo island, with ...
Rare Albino Orangutan Rescued On Borneo Island
A rare albino orangutan has been rescued on the Indonesian part of Borneo island where villagers were keeping the white-haired, ...
Study Identifies Farming In Forest Reseves As Lead Cause of Deforestation
A study has ascertained that of all the factors driving deforestation in Ghana, agriculture is prime with cocoa cultivation being ...
Is Paa Kwasi of Dobble Fame Quitting Music For Farming?
Would you support Paa Kwasi of the defunct Highlife group Dobble to take up farming as a full time job ...
GSE: BOPP Set For More Gains On the Bourse
On the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE,) Benso Oil Palm Plantation , in a recently released earnings report for 2016FY recorded a ...
Claims of Child Labour On Ghana Farms Overblown
Reports of Ghana using child labour on its cocoa farms are grossly exaggerated and not a true reflection of practices ...
Minister-Designate Promises Scholarship For Pupils Who Get Aggregate 6-10
Central Regional minister-designate, Kwamena Duncan, is promising an education endowment fund to provide scholarships to pupils who score between aggregate ...
Where Are the Jobs?
The Arab Spring started in Tunisia after a December 17, 2010 self-burning of a street vendor in a provincial town ...