Traditional leaders must help control cocoa disease
Mr. Seidu Mahama, the Suhum Municipal Best Farmer for 2015, has urged traditional authorities to help educate cocoa farmers to allow cocoa trees infested with the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease to... read more
Agric Is Collapsing …World Bank Warns Ghana
The share of Ghana’s agricultural sector towards the country’s Gross Domestic Products (GDP), which in 1991 was about 65 percent, has now reduced by almost 50 percent down to 23 percent... read more
Dalex Finance CEO pushes for agric sector investment
The Chief Executive of Dalex Finance Kenneth Thompson has reiterated the call for government to channel the nation’s resources into developing the agricultural sector to the benefit of the economy.... read more
COCOBOD denies importing cocoa beans from Cote d`Ivoire
Ghana COCOBOD has denied importing Cocoa beans from Cote d`Ivoire. It is rather a private company that imported cheaper beans from that country to augment what they have already purchased in Ghana.... read more
Key stakeholders take steps to control bird flu
A three-day training workshop to discuss ways to control Avian Influenza (bird flu) and other emerging diseases is underway in Kumasi. It is being organized by the Veterinary Services and sponsored... read more
USAID, ASNAPP initiates agricultural internship programme
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with Africa Lead has initiated an Internship Partnership Network dubbed Entrepreneurial for Opportunity Actualization... read more
COCOBOD to release 60m seedlings to farmers
Management of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) would distribute 60 million cocoa seedlings free of charge to cocoa farmers across the country for planting this season. Dr Francis Baah, the Executive... read more
Vegetable farmers in Kulungungu hit by acute water shortage
Vegetable farmers at Kulungungu in the Pusiga District of the Upper East Region face the risk of losing their crops to harsh weather conditions. They are unable to irrigate their farms because for... read more
Farmers to benefit from 15 million dollars project
Smallholder farmers in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania are to benefit from a 15-million dollar grant from the MasterCard Foundation under a project dubbed “Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers in... read more
Local rice farmers cry for market
Thousands of tonnes of local rice are presently sitting the northern part of Ghana without market, Graphic Business has learnt. The situation, the rice farmers explained would have a... read more