Painful COVID-19 Pandemic: A Lesson for Food Security
Photo: Nepal agriculture. Credit: Kam Raj Pant As a matter of fact, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is highly stressful and painful. We are locked inside homes and earning much less for the past... read more
Ghana set for a bumper harvest amid COVID 19 pandemic
One would have thought that the COVID 19 pandemic was going to petrify Ghana’s food production but that’s not the story at hand. The story looks positive for Ghana as the country... read more
President cuts sod for €85m Elmina fishing port
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday begun his three-day working visit to the Central Region with a sod-cutting ceremony to commence the construction of Elmina fishing port... read more
Green Climate Fund approves $54.5 million for Ghana’s shea landscape
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a USD54.5 million project facility to address the alarming deforestation and forest degradation challenges in the Northern Savannah Zone of Ghana. The... read more
COCOBOD gets $1Billion to buy cocoa beans for the 2020/2021 crop season
Parliament has approved a loan facility to the tune of one Billion US Dollars for the purchase of an estimated 900,000 metric tonnes of cocoa beans for the 2020/2021 crop season by the Ghana... read more
Agricultural extension remains critical in improving farm productivity – Report
Research conducted into the “Impact of Technology Adoption: Evidence from Maize and Cowpea Farmers in Northern Ghana” established that agricultural extension remains key to improving farm... read more
Impact of hybrid cocoa seedlings on production to be felt from next year – Agric Minister
Government has put in place a more pragmatic policy and programme to facilitate the effective production and distribution of cocoa seedlings to farmers; an initiative that will increase the... read more
Ghanaian owned Cashew Processing Factories are operating far below capacity
It has emerged that locally owned Cashew Processing Factories in Ghana are operating far below capacity compare to those owned by foreigners. Even though both local and foreign-owned Cashew... read more
Physically Challenged Farmers Cultivates 60 Acres of Groundnut
The physically challenged at the farm in Salaga The saying disability does not mean inability is what motivated 30 physically challenged farmers in the East Gonja municipality of the Savanah Region... read more
Covid-19 has positively impacted Ghana’s cashew processing sector – MOFA
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture says the Covid-19 pandemic has positively impacted Ghana’s cashew processing sector. MOFA says 7 local cashew processing companies that had... read more