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It’s worrying to spend huge sums of money on tree planting when school children are starving – Dr. Solomon Forkuo

Business development manager at the Kumasi Technical University (KsTU) Dr. Solomon Forkuo Kwarteng has called on government to use students in the country for the future tree planting activities and invest budgetary allocation on such projects on the feeding of students to avoid food shortages in the schools.   The Senior …

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Planting for Food and Jobs market arrives in Kumasi

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has upscaled its pilot ‘PFJ Market’ to the Ashanti Region, with Day One of the Kumasi event fraught with some challenges. Correspondent Nicholas Osei-Wusu reports that the main farm produce to serve patrons, plantains, were brought to Kumasi after 6 p.m. instead of the …

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Green Ghana: Asantehene leads tree planting in A/R

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has planted a tree as part of the Green Ghana Project. Otumfuo Osei Tutu II is leading the Ashanti Regional version of the 2022 Green Ghana Project. The tree was planted at the Royal Golf Club in the Kumasi Metropolis of the Ashanti region. Last …

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Planting for Food and Jobs fertiliser subsidy slashed to 15%

Subsidy on inputs under government’s flagship ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ (PFJ) programme has been cut further for the upcoming 2022 crop season, a document available to the B&FT from the Agriculture Ministry has indicated. The decline in subsidies by government will expectedly impose an extra financial burden on smallholder …

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