Cocoa is one of the raw materials that give high foreign exchange to the government of Ghana. Ghana’s cocoa is one of the best in the world. Due to the high foreign exchange accrued by the government from Cocoa, government of Ghana normally support the cocoa farmers by providing them with fertilizers, cocoa seedlings and other materials needed to boost cocoa production. The story is however different in Asikesu Odumase, Aburi and Asikesu.
In a quest to promote the involvement of the youths in the agricultural value chain to curb unemployment and to support and promote Ghana Beyond Aid, the Ghana Agribusiness Centre (GABC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and Business Development and Association of Ghana is to organize a monthly seminar under the theme ‘Demystifying the Building Blocks of Agribusiness, A Real Definition for Ghana Beyond Aid’.
Young farmers believe that the incubation hub would decrease post-harvest losses by bringing innovation for food security and adding value to traditional crops to turn them into cash crops.
Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) has urged rice farmers to adopt long grain rice due to its high demand and the high price it fetches. This was said on Tuesday by RAB General Director Patrick Karangwa while addressing an issue raised by farmers that they do not have market for their harvest, especially in Nyagatare.
Hortifresh, a programme supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has, as part of its mission to establish a sustainable and internationally competitive fruit and vegetable sector that contributes to inclusive food and nutrition security, launched “the Exporter-Outgrower financial product to boost horticultural production and export in Ghana”.
A fifty-two year old farmer has met his untimely death in Atobriso No. 2, a farming community in the Kwaebibirem municipality of the Eastern region while preparing a piece of land for okro production.
In the past, during the dry season, small-scale farmers who depended on rainfall for farming almost become inactive and always waited for the rainy season to farm and till their lands.
The Chief Executive Officer of the African Agribusiness Incubator Network, Dr. Alex Ariho, has joined the chorus of many in articulating very strongly that it is time for Africa to tell its story differently. “One of the key things that we need to change at continental level is telling the story of Africa differently. We must tell our story that Africa is not a continent of beneficiaries or beggars but a continent of potential partners” he said.
Cocoa purchasing clerks in the Kwabibirem district in the Eastern Region are calling for the introduction of automated payment systems for business transaction as their lives are in constant danger of being attacked by armed robbers in the course of their work.
The Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana has honored the efforts and contributions of distinguished and deserving agribusinesses in Ghana on Friday the 21st December 2018, at Ange Hill Hotel in Accra.
