Tag Archives: FARMERS

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced plans to hand out insecticide-treated bed nets from May 18, this year, with at least 275, 967 households in the Upper East Region expected to be covered. The Upper East Regional Health Directorate made this known during a multi-stakeholder meeting it convened on …

  A student of Tepa Senior High School (SHS) identified as Ebenezer Opoku has stabbed a 23-year-old man to death at Asaman, a farming community in the Ahafo Region. According to reports gathered by MyNewsGh.com, the deceased known as Seidu, and a farmer, migrated from the Northern part of the …

The Coalition of Cocoa farmers of Ghana has threatened to embark on a demonstration over the nonpayment of its members for produce supplied to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD). The coalition has served notice to the government that it will stage a demonstration on Saturday, 6 March 2021 if payments …

Some Farmers in the northern parts of the country say they will keenly monitor the Vetting Proceedings on Friday when the Minister-designate for Food and Agriculture, Hon. Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto appears before the House. The farmers say due to the COVID-19 restrictions which makes it impossible for them to appear in person to …

Nana Kumi Abiesi, the Nsawam–Adoagyiri Municipal Chief Farmer in the Eastern Region, on Monday said COCOBOD has increased spraying machines in the various cocoa growing areas to enable the spraying gangs reach every farm to combat the capsid virus. Speaking at a meeting with cocoa farmers at Nsawam, he said …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, 1 December 2020, launched a pension scheme for the country’s 1.5 million cocoa farmers. According to President Akufo-Addo, “the pension scheme will enable cocoa farmers to make voluntary contributions towards their retirement, while COCOBOD makes a supplementary contribution on behalf of the farmers …

Brendin Horner trial witnesses’ identities must be shielded, says state Only closing arguments by the legal teams and delivery of judgment may be broadcast in the trial of two men in connection with the murder of 21-year-old farm manager Brendin Horner. TV cameras and photographers will be allowed in the …

The Ghana Cocoa Coffee and Sheanut Farmer Association (COCOSHE) has praised the Akufo-Addo administration for the 28.2% increase in cocoa prices for the 2020-21 crop season. According to the farmer-based organization, the producer price of a bag of 64kg of cocoa beans has been increased from GH¢ 515 to GH¢660 …

The New Patriotic Party government has touted its achievement in the Cocoa sector boasting that the erstwhile Mahama administration comes nowhere close to its performance. Address a press conference in Accra Monday, Communications Director of the party Yaw Buaben Asamoa said Cocoa growth and farmers of the cash crop suffered …

The 36th edition of the National Farmers’ Day for this years will be held in Techiman in the Bono East Region on November 6, 2020. The national event will be held on the theme: “Agribusiness Development under COVID-19 – Opportunities and Challenges”. Mrs Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, Minister of Fisheries and …