Ashanti Regional Pig Famers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has once again announced an upward adjustment in prices of its products (Pork) from GHS18 to Ghs22 effective December 1, 2022.
According to Philemon Kwabena Ampongsie, Ashanti regional Secretary of PFAG, the hike is as a result of high cost of production.
Mr. Ampongsie made the announcement during a press briefing in Kumasi.
He indicated that prices of production including pig feed keeps rising and as a result negatively affecting their businesses.
This, he noted has necessitated the upward adjustment to salvage their business.
He appealed to the public to bear with the Association by accepting the marginal increase as efforts are being made to grow the pig farming industry.
The Former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors, and astute farmer, Senyo Hosi has called the government’s 2023 Budget Statement a mere exaggeration lacking factual substance as it failed to provide solutions to the economic hardship.
“You can’t build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery”, Larry Gbevlo-Lartey Esq quoted from Norman Ernest Borlaug asserted that food insecurity, especially when it is caused by a rise in food prices is rarely a direct or only cause of violent extremism.
The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Hon. Dr. Afriyie Akoto Osei.
The Deputy Director of Operations at the Canadian High Commission in Ghana, Louise Paris, has underscored the continued collaboration between Canada and its Ghanaian partners in the implementation of the Modernizing Agriculture in Ghana (MAG) Programme.
Farmer Anthony Morrison, the CEO of the Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana.
The Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana has called on the government to put the military in charge of poultry production in the country.
Speaking on Prime Morning, the Chief Executive Officer of the Chamber, Farmer Anthony Morrison, who doubles as the Chairman of the Ghana Agriculture Sector Skills Body of TVET Commission, indicated that the military is capable of managing the poultry sector.
The Jospong Group Companies (JGC) has commenced its integrated rice farming project following the decision of the government to boost the economy through import substitution.
The impact of drought in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia has led to food insecurity and a high level of acute malnutrition, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.
The WFP, in its latest drought response situation report released Tuesday, said some 22 million people are food insecure due to drought across the affected countries.
It further warned that the loss of livestock and reduced productivity has eroded the livelihoods of the affected pastoral communities.
In 2022 alone, at least 9.2 million livestock deaths occurred in the drought-effected areas of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, according to figures from the WFP.
The WFP, citing the latest IPC Famine Review Committee projections, further warned that famine is likely to occur in three areas in the Bay region in Somalia between October to December.
It said the drought condition is further deteriorating the already dire humanitarian condition across the region.
“The food insecurity situation in Eastern Africa continues to deteriorate owing to extreme weather conditions, conflict, and macroeconomic challenges (inflation, currency devaluation),” the WFP said.
It said the region has recorded a significant increase in the price of local food baskets with Somalia recording the most expensive food basket in the region.
Amid the worsening impacts of the ongoing drought, the WFP said it has scaled up response across the Horn of Africa to respond to severe food shortages by providing lifesaving food and nutrition assistance to affected communities.In Somalia, WFP has more than doubled its life-saving food assistance from 1.7 million people in April 2022 with plans to reach 4.5 million in the coming months, it said.
The WFP is also enabling communities to recover faster and better from the drought by investing in interventions that promote resilience and adaptive capacities of communities to deal with shocks.
It, however, noted that forecasts indicate a potential increase in needs, in which additional funding is needed to sustain and scale up assistance to prevent more dire outcomes.
The WFP said it urgently needs 1.27 billion U.S. dollars for all its operations in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia for the period from November 2022 to April 2023.
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta says the government through the Development Bank Ghana (DBG) will invest ¢50 million in the agricultural sector in 2023.
The local production of baby food in Africa is an unexploited opportunity, according to a new report by the International Trade Centre, titled Made by Africa: Creating Value through Integration.
Big commodity buyers do not usually pay their suppliers to produce something that they will never buy. Yet Nestlé, one of the world’s biggest chocolate makers, is paying 10,000 cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast to do exactly that. Among them is Tanoh Kouadio, a 45-year-old cocoa farmer whom Nestlé will pay about 67,000 West African francs ($106) to raise chickens.
