Maize is one of the most important cereal crops in Uganda. In particular, smallholder farmers rely on it for food and as a cash crop. They also grow it as an important export crop.
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Akufo-Addo increases cocoa producer price to GH¢10,560 per metric ton.
Beginning Thursday, October 1, 2020, a new cocoa producer price of GH¢10,560 per metric ton, equivalent to GH¢660 per bag will be paid for the coming 2020/21 crop year.
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African farmers are younger than you think. Here is why.
Over the past 20 years, sub-Saharan Africa has registered the highest rate of agricultural production in the world. There have been knock-on effects with the region also seeing the fastest growth in off-farm employment and non-farm labour productivity.
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PRESS STATEMENT: EXPECTATION OF PRODUCER PRICE INCREMENT FOR 2020/2021 COCOA SEASON-GCCP DEMAND.
The Ghana Civil-Society Cocoa Platform (GCCP) commends the Ghana Cocoa Board for its bold initiative of implementing a floor price and a living income differential (LID) aimed at improving farmer’s standard of living. The platform recognizes the massive significance of this initiative and its invaluable impact on the livelihood of cocoa farmers and therefore applauds COCOBOD and its counterparts in Cote d’Ivoire for this bold initiative.
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The 2nd LiPF Training and Tradeshow opens September 25th in Accra.
The 2020 edition of the Livestock, Poultry, and Fisheries Training Tradeshow (LiPF) has been slated for September 25th and 26th, 2020. The event that will have the United States Department for Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Ghana Poultry Project (GPP) playing the lead role in training, showcases and promotes the Livestock, Poultry, and fisheries production value chain in Ghana.
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Agriculture withstands pandemic shock to record growth.
It is the sector given the least support; it is the sector with the highest number of the aging workforce; it is the one that is least attractive to the youth.
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AGI to transform youth attitude towards entrepreneurship.
Mr. Dela Gadzanku, the Volta/Eastern Chair of the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), has said the interest of the youth in entrepreneurial opportunities remained weak despite government and stakeholder efforts.
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Livestock, Poultry and Fisheries, Training & Trade Show to Step Up Growth and Production Performance.
Last year 2019, The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, launched the Rearing for Food and Jobs (RFJ) programme in Wa in the Upper West Region.
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MOAP trains Women at UWR on rice parboiling techniques.
The Market Oriented Agriculture Programme (MOAP) in North West Ghana, has provided rice parboiling training techniques for 35 women in the Upper West Region to help improve the quality of parboiling rice produce to access markets and better prices.
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Rethinking China’s Participation in African Agricultural Development in the Post-COVID-19 Era.
Africa was already facing food insecurity and agricultural underdevelopment prior to COVID-19. In 2018 studies showed that Sub-Saharan Africa was the world’s most food-insecure region, hosting 239 million undernourished population. Although many African countries are proactive in boosting agricultural production and protecting their food supply by raising crop productivity and reducing their sensitivity to weather conditions, it is clear that COVID-19 will derail these processes.
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