The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH held a 2-day training of Agricultural Extension Agents (AEAs) in the Upper West, Savannah and North East Regions of Ghana to improve on the productivity of unproductive and over-aged cashew plantations using a technology named “Topworking”.
Cocoa farmers are to be paid hugely for their hard work starting from the next cocoa season in October 2020. This was pronounced by the Vice President, H.E Mahamudu Bawumia on one on one interview with the Chairman General, Kwame Sefa Kayi at Peace FM, Accra.
Enpact e.V, a German Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has opened applications for businesses to receive financial, mentoring, and technical support to deal with challenges associated with the onset of COVID-19.
The Ghana Agricultural and Rural Development Journalists Association (GARDJA) is pleased to announce the rolling out of a new cocoa advocacy initiative aimed at helping create a sustainable cocoa value chain in Ghana.
The Ghana-India Trade Advisory Chamber (GITAC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana at the Ministry of Business Development’s conference room, Accra to harness the accessibility of funds, technology, and trade to boost production in the agriculture industry.
Cocoa farmers have appealed to Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), the industry regulator, to increase the producer price of cocoa beans in the coming 2020/2021 season by a significant margin.
Solidaridad, an International Development Organization, through its Satellite for Business project, an interactive digital platform, is facilitating access to finance for smallholder cocoa and oil palm farmers. The project is providing farmers’ credit scores to lending institutions to aid credit decisions.
The Western Regional branch of the Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council (GNCFC) has appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to bring to end activities of industrial pair trawlers engaged in illegal transshipment of fishing in the Ghanaian waters.
The National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP) Greenhouse Estate Project, West Africa’s biggest greenhouse project, was officially outdoored yesterday at Dawhenya in the Greater Accra Region by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Some citizens of Pramso in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti, have petitioned the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, over the destruction of their farmlands.
