Tag Archives: FARMERS

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 …

The Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has announced that cashew farmers will receive special attention and support when the NDC wins the December elections. He explained that the NDC’s focus on cashew farmers and cashew production forms part of the Party’s planned programme of ensuring …

Ghana has raised its farm gate price for cocoa by 21% after implementing a $400 per metric ton premium on futures prices for the 2020-21 harvest, according to two people familiar with the matter. Growers of cocoa beans in the world’s second-largest producer of the crop will receive 625 cedis …

Agriculture is the region’s largest employer by sector and a key driver of participation in global value chains – but will the sector ever be capable of delivering food security?  Innovation in agricultural technology is instrumental in achieving broad-based social and economic growth in developing countries. In Ghana and the …

Disappointed by the incessant failure of various governments to make farming attractive, the CEO of Aboboyaa Company Ltd and a farmer, Mr. Gideon Seidu aka Aboboyaa has heavily descended on the subsequent governments; NDC, NPP for being bias when it comes to Agriculture and farmers welfare in the country.   …

Volta River Authority, VRA has revealed that over 400 structures will be affected by the construction of the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam project in both North-East and Upper East Regions of Ghana. The estimated cost involved in resettlement and compensation has not been known yet but plans are far advanced in …

Residents in some farming communities in the Fanteakwa North District of the Eastern region have threatened to boycott the upcoming MMDCE’s referendum and subsequently the Presidential and Parliamentary elections if deplorable roads linking their communities are not rehabilitated. The farmers say their general living conditions continue to worsen due to …

Ghana’s economy has been predominantly agrarian. Various cash crops have a place in Ghana’s economic history. Tetteh Quarshie, for example, brought cocoa from Fernando Po, having experienced the viability of the beans. Other food crops such as rice, maize, soybeans etc. have been on our production radar. Farming is mostly …