The average female cocoa farmer is paid as little as 23p a day, highlighting a gender pay gap in the global chocolate industry, according to Fairtrade.
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Brazil Agrishow 2020 Stakeholders’ Meeting held in Accra.
The Brazil Agrishow 2020 stakeholders’ meeting has been held at the Brazilian Embassy in Accra. The stakeholders’ meeting was under the theme: “Doing business with Brazil agriculture”. The Agrishow is the 3rd largest Agric show in the world.
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New Okaff Industries introduces new product to boost cocoa production.
New Okaff Industries Ltd, one of the reputable firms in Ghana and the sole producer of Af CONFIDENCE Insecticide wishes to announce to the general public, particularly, the gallant Cocoa farmers in Ghana to keep on patronizing Af Confidence Insecticide.
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Cocoa Board to introduce Digitized Weighing Scale by October.
The Deputy Chief Executive in-charge of Operations, Ghana Cocoa Board, Dr. Emmanuel Opoku has assured cocoa farmers that by October this year, Ghana will start using Digitized Weighing Scale.
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Malta High Commissioner pays a working visit to NEIP. – Promises to support government’s entrepreneurship agenda.
The High Commissioner of Malta has expressed his country’s interest to support entrepreneurs and businesses in Ghana.
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Farmers stuck with pineapples as prices drop to Shs 700.
The price of pineapples in Luweero district has dropped from Shs 2,000 to Shs 700 per piece following a bumper harvest.
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The 3rd Edition of Agricultural Students Career Guidance and Mentorship Dialogue (AG-STUD) Bootcamp 2020. launched.
The 3rd Agricultural Students Career Guidance and Mentorship Dialogue (AG-STUD) Bootcamp 2020 under the theme: Growing the Future: Establishing the Agri Youth, has been launched at Coconut Groove Hotel, Accra by Agrihouse Foundation.
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Zimbabwe’s Farmers Lament: ‘The Taxes Are Just Too Much’.
Zimbabwe’s agricultural minister told officials this week that the country has only 100,000 tonnes of maize left in its strategic reserves – enough to last just over a month.
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Ardhi Investment Group’s Greenhouse Project Opens.
Ghana is ranked 93rd in the world in imports. Statistics indicate that Ghana spends over US$100 million on the importation of vegetables annually. The vegetables imported are mostly tomatoes and onions from neighbouring countries. This compelled Ardhi Investment Group with support from HortiFresh to construct a greenhouse project to produce quality and healthy vegetables for the local market to help reduce vegetable importation.
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Agrihouse Foundation: Exerting Influence and Making Impact for 2020 and Beyond.
For many within and without the Agriculture industry, the term ‘agriculture’ resonates with mental images of hoes, cutlasses, vegetation-and recently, mechanized farming, pesticides, and fertilizers. This mundane view of agriculture through age-old has endured because most industry firms centred their operations and service delivery on farm-specific endeavours.
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