Profit-making idea: Providing grain storage space for Ghana’s maize farmers.

In Ghana, maize farmers often release their full yields to the market immediately after harvest. Because of the mechanics of supply and...

Fuel hikes affect the price of maize in Odumasi.

Odumasi is one of the leading producers of maize in the Bono Region. A visit by GhanaWeb to the...

Government cancels GMO seed trials.

Agriculture minister Prof Adolf Mkenda made the announcement on Tuesday afternoon at the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) Mikocheni centre in Dar...

Policy coherence and harmonization are critical tools to ensure functional food...

The Executive Director of Agency for Health and Food Security (AHEFS), Mr. Kwaku Onwona-Hwesofour Asante has revealed that our region needs policy...

The future of Ghana’s cocoa sector faces imminent threats due to...

Opanin Kofi Asaam is 74 years and has been farming cocoa all his life. He lives alone at Tenyikwa, a village in...

Farmers’ trust in improved seeds fell significantly in 2019 – Research.

Research conducted by the Ghana Trades and Livelihoods Coalition (GTLC) in 2019 has shown that farmers’ trust in improved seeds supplied under...

Groital Company Limited gets a processing facility to curtail post-harvest losses.

Groital Company Limited with support from HortiFresh has procured a 75kg industrial dryer and established a processing facility for the production of...

How Does Poverty Taste? CHOCOLATEY.

To mark the launch of the 2020 Cocoa Barometer on the first of December, Solidaridad’s Isaac Gyamfi & Heske Verburg write about...

Pension Scheme for Cocoa Farmers to Ensure Sustainable Cocoa Production.

Ghana is a key leader in the world cocoa market. According to history, cocoa was first brought to Ghana by Tetteh Quarshie...

Cocoa Superpowers: Ghana and Ivory Coast go hard on American chocolate...

Ghana and Ivory Coast are said to cancel all cocoa sustainability schemes run by American chocolate manufacturing giant – Hershey – within...