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23/02/2022

is hosting your finest Agri experts in Ghana to discuss Agribusiness opportunities for youths.

The event is happening on Twitter spaces this Friday prompt.

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07/07/2021

"A ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ agenda not underpinned by of our is dead on arrival.

A country like Ghana, which spent about $2.5 billion on food imports in 2019 alone, should be distraught.

Furthermore, a country that imports seed for farmers at the start of every planting season should rethink its developmental strategy…But, unfortunately, we do not have any choice if we want to improve the human condition in Ghana. Therefore, we need to prioritise in agriculture,”
- Prof Eric Danquah, The Founding Director of the West Africa Center for Crop Improvement (WACCI) at the University of Ghana.

The Founding Director of the West Africa Center for Crop Improvement (WACCI) at the University of Ghana says the “Ghana Beyond Aid” agenda rolled out by government will not be successful without the transformation of the country’s food systems. Prof. Eric Danquah says there is a need for gover...

29/06/2021

Three (3) out of the five (5) selected finalists in the upcoming awards are Ghanaians.

Catherine Krobo Edusie of Eden Tree, Juliana Asante-Dartey of Agri-impact and Mabel-Ann Akoto-Kwudzo of Okata Farms are the finalists for the eminent category of the 2021 GIZ Women in Agribusiness Awards slated for 30th June, 2021.

https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Ghanaians-leading-in-the-upcoming-Women-in-Agribusiness-Awards-1296637

Three (3) out of the five (5) selected finalists in the upcoming awards are Ghanaians.

28/06/2021

may be forced to still rely on food imports if agric-focused policies are not adopted.

With new trends in the space, tech analyst and President of Hacklab Foundation, Foster Awintiti Akugri, has advised government to be innovative in its tax targetted at the to rake in the needed .

He argues that, are evolving, and there are new forms of that are created with the advent of . Government needs to be proactive and innovative in how they formulate new systems to create the in .

What's your take on this?

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12/06/2021

Latest report by the Ghana Statistical Service confirms that about 75% of firms are not aware about the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

AfCFTA started operations on 1 January, 2021.

As a farmer or Agribusiness firm, tell us what you know about AfCTA.

• GSS has assessed the impact of COVID-19 on agribusinesses in Ghana

09/06/2021

New data on the impact of the pandemic on agribusinesses in Ghana suggested that it may take a little more time and support for businesses to recover from the impact of the pandemic.

The survey results released by the GSS, funded by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), collected data from about 8,000 agribusinesses across Ghana.

Accra, June 7, GNA - New data by the Ghana Statistical Service have shown that an estimated 16,000 agribusiness firms remain closed between ...

08/06/2021

The project will introduce Italian expertise and technology in the value chain to the Ghanaian agribusiness market, with a focus on the following key areas: Agricultural Machinery and Mechanization; Logistics; Inputs and Agrochemicals; Irrigation; and Agro-Processing and Packaging.
About 27 Italian companies with expertise in these areas will be presented to the Ghanaian market.

The Italian Trade Agency (ITA) today launched the Italy-Ghana Agribusiness Digital Lab project to bring together Italian and Ghanaian companies in the agribusiness sector to develop mutually beneficial business relationships. The project will introduce Italian expertise and technology in the agrib...

07/06/2021

GAWU has sent a distress signal to Ghana Cocoa Board(COCOBOD) to swiftly intervene to stop the large-scale destruction of farms by illegal miners or risk missing out on its ambitious target of producing 900,000 tonnes of cocoa beans for the 2020/21 crop season.

The farmers, who are already losing their lands to galamsey activities, are also battling contaminated mercury and cyanide polluted water in irrigating their farms.

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Every week, illegal mining activities or ‘galamsey’ destroys at least 20 acres of cocoa farms in the Sefwi-Wiawso, Juaboso, Bia and Akotombra areas in the Western North Region, an area that constitutes the largest percentage of Ghana’s cocoa...

01/04/2021

May this month bring in much rains for greater harvest.

09/03/2021

The Upper East Region has recorded higher yields in its major crops except in 2020 as compared to 2019, despite the poor rainfall pattern and floods that destroyed some .

The Upper East Region has recorded higher yields in its major crops except sorghum in 2020 as compared to 2019, despite the poor rainfall pattern and floods that destroyed some farms. The Regional Officer in charge of statistics, Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), Timothy Zangina, responding i...

08/03/2021

To all women contributing to sustainable .

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01/03/2021

In the West African country of Ghana, many people from farming backgrounds are forced to find new ways to survive, as droughts, floods and erratic weather patterns upend age-old agricultural practices.

Yemenis who have been displaced by years of conflict have been sharing stories of resilience and hope as their country endures what the UN has described as the “largest humanitarian crisis in the world”. More than 16 million of them will go hungry this year.

01/03/2021

The next generation recognises that our future depends on functioning , and at the same time, it is Africa’s that holds the power to deliver them.

Guest Column - With  one in every five   young people today coming from Africa, it has become increasingly hard to ignore us.

26/02/2021

A Ghanaian Artificial Intelligence entity, karaAgro AI, and its consortium partners have been awarded a grant by Lacuna Fund towards the creation of a machine learning dataset for crop disease and pest detection.

A Ghanaian Artificial Intelligence entity, karaAgro AI, and its consortium partners have been awarded a grant by Lacuna Fund towards the creation of a

25/02/2021

“You are not introducing anything new from another organism. It’s the same organism but some changes are made. So it’s like a shirt that is stained; you use bleach or anything to clean off after which you erase it and that is all, there’s no trace of the soap or the bleach that you use. That’s how gene editing works,” - Mr. Samuel Acheampong

Research work to produce Ghana’s first gene-edited crop with increased Vitamin A content has begun at the University of Cape Coast. Samuel Acheampong of the university’s Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology has over the last year been working to increase beta carotene (which is a pr...

23/02/2021

Ghana Cocoa Board will receive a sum of US$190 million to pay Cocoa farmers who are yet to be paid for cocoa beans they supplied to Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs) for the 2020/2021 cocoa season early this week - Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto

The Minister-designate for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto has stated that the Ghana Cocoa Board will receive a sum of US$190 million to pay Cocoa farmers who are yet to be paid for cocoa beans they supplied to Licensed Buying Companies...

22/02/2021

With an end to -19 not readily insight, experts have said global demand for the will continue to see a hike. This probably presents opportunities for traders and in Ghana.

Prices currently amount to around 40-45 Euro in Europe and US$50 in the U.S for a 12 kilogram box.

As the novel coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 presented lucrative prospects for ginger farmers and suppliers across the globe, ginger farmers and traders in Ghana are risking opportunities to cash in on the situation.

20/02/2021

Despite the advantages of monocropping which is a very prevalent farming practice in the country, mixed cropping on the other hand offers a lot of opportunities for farmers. - Dr. Kwaku Afriyie

The Minister nominee for Environment Science and Technology, Dr Kwaku Afriyie has said there is a lot of potential in mixed crop methods of farming which Ghanaian farmers can benefit from.

17/02/2021

"Illegal mining activities have made the environment dangerous. The land is no longer fertile and our farmlands have been destroyed, thereby causing food scarcity and making the prices of food skyrocket." - Chris Choji, a Farmer.

Plateau State is a Nigerian food basket but tin mining activities are destroying farmlands and the youth are turning away from farming.

16/02/2021

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has said his outfit is recruiting 50,000 people to be engaged in a nationwide cocoa rehabilitation exercise.

15/02/2021

The country is endowed with that it must actively exploit if we are to feed ourselves and generate sizeable from the of agriproducts.

There is no denying that Ghana’s economy heavily relies on the agriculture sector. The sector single-handedly is acclaimed to be the country’s biggest employer – offering a means of livelihood to millions in the agri value chain. But despite its important role, not quite much has changed in te...

13/02/2021

The result of the Ghana Census of Agriculture has shown that most agricultural holders use traditional tools and equipment for production whereas the use of modern tools and equipment such as tractors, shellers, power tillers, hatchery/incubator, meat processing equipment and milking equipment are negligible.
Fertilizers are not used by most holders, the use of pesticides is highly prevalent among holders.
Crop cultivation is predominantly dependent on rain and mortality in livestock is high.

Farmers who cultivate crops and forest tree production on two acres and below still dominate the agriculture sector, the Ghana Census of Agriculture (GCA)

11/02/2021

"As we are seeing, agriculture used to contribute a lot more to the , but now its contribution is about 20 percent.
The full potentials of in , , earnings, wealth and investment outcomes are not being realised given the current modes of operation and characteristics of the persons and institutions engaged in .
To promote , agriculture should attract the , especially those with tertiary-level education, among whom
is high and who the shows have low participation in agriculture" - Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, Government Statistician.

The contribution of agriculture to the Ghanaian economy could further dwindle, considering the current modes of operation and characteristics of the persons and institutions engaged in the sector, the Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina...

09/02/2021

The UK has been considering new trade laws, post Brexit. Already, some UK firms have been rejecting imports from Ghana because of the stiffer policy from the UK authority.
Government officials have been meeting the UK counterparts to resolve the issue though it wants the resolution as quickly as possible to prevent dire consequences.

Government has assured banana exporters of resolving the trade issues with the United Kingdom as customers in Britain express major concern in the delay of supply. The UK has been considering new trade laws, post Brexit.  Already, some UK firms have been rejecting imports from Ghana because of the ...

04/02/2021

Mr. Emmanuel Amenu, Municipal Director, Department of Agriculture has called on government to recruit more extension officers from agric colleges to support the successful implementation of government's agricultural initiatives in the country. He laments that the current extension agent to farmer ratio which is one to 2000 plus poses a serious threat to agricultural development.

Inadequate Agricultural Extension Officers across the country have been one of the setbacks confronting the sustenance of the various pro-poor agricultural interventions from the government. According to the Municipal Director, Department of Agriculture, West Akim in the Eastern Region, Emmanuel Ame...

03/02/2021

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has begun dissemination workshops starting from Northern Ghana to communicate the key findings of the 2017/18 Ghana Census of Agriculture (GCA) to attract and sustain the impact of the people and also to take Agricultural decisions and some policy directions.
Some key findings include;
✔ Agricultural activities are male dominated
✔ Youths in the Northern Zone are not much into Agriulture
✔ 80% of Agricultural holders nationwide produce on lands less than 2 acres.

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has organised a dissemination workshop in Tamale to bring out key findings of Ghana's third Agriculture Census in Northern Ghana.

02/02/2021

A system using to send free alerts when trees are destroyed has been linked to a significant drop in forest losses in Africa.
dropped by an average of 18% across nine central countries after the alerts were introduced.

Near real-time data pinpointing tree losses is helping African countries tackle deforestation, a study finds. A system using satellite data to send free alerts when trees are destroyed has been linked to a significant drop in forest losses in Africa, researchers and academics have said. Deforestatio...

01/02/2021

“Funding is the greatest problem we face, government pays our salaries but to carry out any we really have to write proposals, so we are always looking for proposals, sometimes you will go into a community and identify a problem that farmers face and yet you will be constrained with resources to undertake research towards addressing the issue,” - Dr Saaka Buah, Acting Director, CSIR-SARI, Nyankpala

The Savannah Agriculture Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI) has called on the government to establish a

01/02/2021

In May 2020, the Feed the Future ADVANCE II activity, conducted a rapid assessment to assess the impact of -19 on Ghana’s sector. Using assessment findings, developed solutions to mitigate pandemic-related and service disruptions. USAID distributed personal protective equipment and hygiene kits to 22,650 farmers and conducted COVID-19 sensitization campaigns in communities and by radio; established a relief grant program that provided farm inputs such as fertilizer to 1,000 farmers; promoted and linked farmers to locally-bred varieties; restored disrupted ploughing services for smallholder farmers; supported over 80 outgrower businesses in their applications to access a portion of the 600 million cedi Coronavirus Alleviation Program - Business Support Scheme fund; and provided mobile phones to 400 women to increase their access to information and strengthen their networks.

Accra, GHANA - On January 27, the U. S. government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), hosted a virtual learning event culminating a seven-year, $41.

01/02/2021

specifically their immune systems—have become dependent on the they coevolved with for tens of thousands of years or more. “The immune system [is] a learning system,” Rook tells The Scientist. “Unless you put the data in, it can’t function correctly.”

Recent work in humans and mice highlights how exposure to environmental microbes helps protect against allergies and other inflammatory diseases.

28/01/2021

The aim of the Ghana FertilizerExpansion Programme (GFEP) is to operationalize the existing National Fertilizer Policy and Regulations and shall build on other ongoing initiatives resulting in increased crop yield and jobs across the country.

NewsGhanaGovernment Policies The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) sets to implement the “National Fertilizer Expansion Programme. January 28, 2021 0 443 Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter tweet The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has set out to implement the “National Fertilizer E...

28/01/2021

Ghanaian economists has identified Agro-processing and Tourism as sectors that could potentially address Ghana’s unemployment and enhance competitiveness and productivity of small and medium-sized firms.

Accra Jan...

27/01/2021

Ms. Rose Goslinga Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at P**A an African Agricultural Insurance and Technology Service Provider has revealed that P**a has closed a $6m Series A fundraiser to support the expansion of P**a in Asia and Africa by providing yield and animal for Smallholder farmers across Africa and Asia.

Ms. Rose Goslinga Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at P**A an African Agricultural Insurance and Technology Service Provider has revealed that P**a has closed a $6m Series A fundraiser to support the expansion of P**a in Asia and Africa by providing yield and animal insurance for Smallholde...

26/01/2021

How onion farmers are using improvised irrigation systems (perforated gallons) to fight erratic weather conditions in the North-Eastern region of Ghana.
The improvised system even though cumbersome, allows the farmers to grow onions under harsh weather conditions cost-effectively.

31-year-old Haruna Adam Alhassan grows onions on a half-acre farm in Kparigu, east of Walewale in the West Mamprusi district capital. He hopes to start harvesting the 20 thousand plants soon to make good money. A cursory observation of the crops shows they are doing well.Haruna does not irrigate the...

25/01/2021

In his maiden speech, President Nana Addo challenged the private sector to establish the state-of-the-art industries like the Ekumfi Fruits and Juices factory and produce products which would help cut down on imports in the medium to long term.

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has unveiled great golden opportunities to the private sector on the maiden day of his swearing in. In his maiden speech, President Nana Addo challenged the private sector to establish the state-of-the-art industries like the Ekumfi Fruits and Juices factor...

25/01/2021

Bill Gates has been quietly snatching up 242,000 acres of farmland across the U.S. — enough to make him the top private owner in America.

Top on the list also is Liberty Media Chair, John Malone with 2.2 million acres of ranches and forests, CNN Founder Ted Turner who ranked number three with 2 million acres of ranch land across eight states and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also known to be investing in land on a large scale, landing the 25th spot with his ownership of 420,000 acres, mainly in west Texas.

The Microsoft billionaire has been quietly building a 242,000-acre portfolio of agricultural land across 18 states.

23/01/2021

Massive monocrop of in the United State is draining .

A new study from at the University of Colorado Boulder ran models to get a sense of what the economic costs of this system are and found they are quite staggering.

Massive monocrop farming of corn, in the United States, brings with it a whole host of push-and-pull requirements. This style of agriculture drains the

23/01/2021

A former Director at the Animal Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-ARI), Dr Naminong Karbo, has observed that the country must endeavour to separate maize meant for human consumption from those meant for poultry feed.

This, he said, would ensure that the country had enough maize to feed the poultry industry.

He made the recommendation in the interview as part of measures to help ensure all-year round supply of maize to poultry farmers.

Segregate maize for humans, poultry consumption -- agric expert

22/01/2021

The Ghana Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (GIRSAL) has issued guarantee cover for loans of about GH¢66 million given by financial institutions to .

This was made known by Ken Ofori -Atta, the President’s nominee for Minister of Finance, in a speech read on his behalf by the former Minister of Planning, Prof. George Gyan-Baffour, at the 72nd Annual New Year School and Conference in Accra.

The Ghana Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (GIRSAL) has issued guarantee cover for loans of about GH¢66 million given by financial institutions to agribusinesses.