The 3rd Variety Show is set to be held on August 4th, 2022; with Legacy Crop Improvement Centre (LCIC) set to light the way for seed production and seed processing in Ghana and provide tailor-made solutions in addressing constraints that inhibit the growth of the seed industry in Ghana. The third Variety Show, one of the biggest seed industry events in Ghana will showcase the potential of the seed industry and create public awareness of new technologies (varieties).
“Normally 40 percent of the cassava harvest is lost, but with our technology, none of the harvests is lost, so that’s extra income,” CassVita founder and CEO Pelkins Ajanoh ’18 says.
ActionAid Ghana, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has organized a pre-season farming forum to empower and build the capacity of women farmers in Tumu in the Sissala East Municipality.
Amid improved rainfall which has been better than the previous year, market watcher, Databank, anticipates that a better food harvest season could tame the rise in food inflation from the latter part of the third quarter to the fourth quarter.
Mr. Edward Kareweh, the General Secretary of the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU), says the country needs effective structural policies to optimize the competitiveness of the agricultural value chain.
Geoffrey Fadoul, CEO of Daily Food, and his co-founder started an industrial bakery business that sells snack foods across West Africa. It also supplies fast-food chains, like KFC, with burger buns. By Koromone Koroye.
Broadspectrum Limited has pledged its commitment to continuously promote the agribusiness sector and play a key role in attracting the youth to venture into the Agribusiness Value Chain. The organization donated to the maiden edition of the Youth in Agribusiness Festival, held by the John A. Kufour Foundation in Kumasi on the 27th-29th July 2022.
With the rising cost of living and record inflation rates, food insecurity is set to peak in Ghana and the world over.
The Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA), under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, is set to launch an ambitious five years Strategic and Implementation Plan geared toward the development of a competitive and sustainable tree crops industry in Ghana.
Former Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Ocquaye, has called for a ban on the importation of some selected products including foreign juice, chicken and other agric products.
According to him, the country ought to restructure its economy to be self-reliant in terms of feeding itself.
Speaking at the launch of the 60th anniversary celebration of the Department Of Political Science at the University of Ghana on Friday, July 22, Professor Mike Ocquaye wondered if citizens will be left to perish if something bigger than Covid-19 and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, which has disrupted global supply chains, occurs.
He asked that companies that are into agriculture be given special attention in order to curtail postharvest losses.
“We should look at our agro-based industries to process, store and distribute food, juices etc. How can the mangoes [be] rotten in Mangoase, Dodowa etc and the other fruits in other parts of Ghana rot whiles we languish? We need to industrialize.
“Produce more by agric and preserve them. Ladies and Gentlemen, this brings us to the WTO [World Trade Organisation] arrangement which allows the free dumping of finished products in the developing nation. No industrialized nation in the world today by its history grew to that status without isolating itself.
“Therefore, by way of serious political economy studies, we should have to close our gates and lock out all these products that are dumped upon us as against the directives of the WTO. I emphasize that the right to protect infant industries is a global human right. Foreign juices, foreign chicken and other agric products should be banned to save our nations here in Africa,” Professor Mike Ocqu
