Private Sector Urged To Support Planting For Food and Jobs

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

USAID Aims To Increase Farmer Access To High-Quality Seed

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in collaboration with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) through their joint Scaling Seeds and Technology Partnership (SSTP) held a national dialogue on November 17 to 18 in Accra to discuss the challenges facing the development of Ghana’s seed sector. USAID Ghana Mission Director … Read more

Calls To Prioritize Needs Of Women In Agriculture

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