“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.
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ActionAid prepares women for the new farming season at Tumu.
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.
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Good harvest could tame rising inflation – Databank.
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.
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The agricultural value chain needs structural policy adjustment – GAWU.
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.
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Ghana: CEO’s journey of building a mass-market snack-food business.
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.
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Youth in Agribusiness Festival: Broadspectrum Limited assures its support to John A. Kufuor Foundation initiative.
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.
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Backyard farming: a creative solution to a serious problem – expert.
With the rising cost of living and record inflation rates, food insecurity is set to peak in Ghana and the world over.
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TCDA sets to launch 5-year strategic and implementation plan.
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.
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The Former Speaker of Parliament, Ocquaye laments Ghana’s dependence on imports.
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
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Cocoa beans, cocoa products’ export value forecast to increase in line with positive demand this year.
The export value of cocoa beans and cocoa-based downstream products is expected to continue to increase this year after recording an encouraging increase last year, following the positive trend of demand for local products abroad.
The Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Datuk Seri Dr Wee Jeck Seng said the export value of cocoa beans and cocoa products increased 9.6 per cent to RM6.87 billion last year compared with RM6.27 billion in 2020.
“This year, from January to May alone, as much as RM3.2 billion in export value has been recorded, proving that this sector has potential,” he told reporters after officiating the Tanjung Piai chocolate entrepreneurship centre here today.
Among the cocoa-based downstream products that are in high demand are cocoa powder, cocoa paste and chocolate products with great demand coming from the Middle East and ASEAN countries.
We said various programmes have been created by the government through the Entrepreneur Development Programme for Homemade Chocolate under the Entrepreneur Development Project for Homemade Chocolate and the Cocoa Promotion Programme in the 12th Malaysia Plan to produce more entrepreneurs and high-value cocoa-based local products.
He said the programme has successfully developed 242 handmade chocolate entrepreneurs across the country so far. Therefore, he said the newly opened entrepreneurship centre is expected to help in generating local income, especially for the B40 group and also the youth.
“This entrepreneurship centre is the first to be developed in collaboration with the Malaysian Cocoa Board (LKM) and the Institute of Malaysian Plantation and Commodities (IMPAC).
“Anyone who is interested, we will give them training. We want to produce valuable entrepreneurs using the right business model so that when they go through training from one level to the next, they will create a product and give a good return,” he said.
He said the course participants would be given exposure to handmade chocolate-making skills, the basics of entrepreneurship as well as assistance in marketing and selling products at the same premises as a kick-start support service to become a chocolate entrepreneur.
“At the initial stage of implementation, this centre is scheduled to guide as many as 300 potential entrepreneurs. “This centre is able to create opportunities to generate income for the B40 people in this area who are interested in venturing into the handmade chocolate manufacturing industry,” he added.
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