High yield hybrid maize seed introduced; only 85 days to maturity.
New hybrid maize seeds with the magnitude of increasing the country’s food buffer stock with its maturity span of only 85 days are about...
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 coherence and...
Science consciousness is the key in our Agriculture sector- Former Deputy...
A former Deputy Agriculture Minister Dr. Ahmed Alhassan Yakubu is asking Ghanaians to embrace the passage of the Plant Breeders’ Bill to help make...
Modern agriculture processes for high yields of crops amounts to less...
As one gazes across the rows of brightly colored fruits and vegetables in the produce section of the grocery store, one may not be...
COCOBOD develops high resistance hybrid seedlings.
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is focusing on mitigating the cocoa swollen shoot disease in its research activities, Food and Agriculture Minister, Dr. Owusu...
PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR RE-INTRODUCTION OF PLANT BREEDERS BILL
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Environment, Science and Technology has recommended to Parliament to re-introduce and pass the Plant Breeders Bill to protect the...
Drone Farming: How precision agriculture is transforming farmers’ livelihoods in Ghana.
Just less than three years, a young farmer by the name, Kofi Darko who lives at Akrpong in the Eastern region decided to venture...
Breaking News: KNUST researchers develop high-performance batteries from taro/brobe peels
A team of researchers from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have unveiled a groundbreaking method of producing high-performance batteries using...
Scientists use CRISPR to seriously boost tomatoes’ Vitamin D levels.
By making a few genetic tweaks using CRISPR technology, scientists have designed a special sun-dried tomato packed to the leaves with vitamin D.
The flesh...
Phosphorus is key to drive food security – Prof. Phil Haygarth
The Professor of soil and water science at Lancaster University, UK, Prof. Phil Haygarth has mentioned that phosphorus is key that drives the world’s...
