By : Gideon Kwame Sarkodie Osei A total of 45 Agriculture Extension Agents (AEAs) has undergone a two-day training workshop ...

Some 800 farmers in the Sekyere South district of the Ashanti Region have benefitted from the distribution of 32,000 kilogrammes ...

Dr Franklin Mabe, a Senior Lecturer, University for Development Studies, has called on stakeholders to take action on the agricultural ...

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) as at the close of May this year registered about 340 street food vendors ...

Solidaridad, an international civil society organization, and its partners have launched a three-year poultry project aimed at promoting an inclusive ...

The Biotechnology and Nuclear Agriculture Research Institute (BNARI) at the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) has organised the maiden virtual ...

The annual Gold in the Soil Awards, which run alongside the women in Food and Agricultural Leadership Training Forum, is ...

The CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI) says the adoption of technology and farm services support is woefully inadequate. It ...

Dr Samuel Armoo, a Senior Infectious Disease Research Scientist of the Biomedical and Public Health Research Unit of the Council ...

Mr Henry Quartey, Greater Accra Regional Minister, has given a 48-hour ultimatum, effective today, to encroachers within the premises of ...

Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta, has led the Ministry and its agencies to plant tree seedlings at the forecourt ...

Ghana has lost a total of 1.41 million hectares of tree cover from 2001 to 2021, equivalent to a 20 ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday led the nationwide campaign to plant 20 million trees as part of efforts ...

Conflict, weather extremes, economic shocks, the lingering impacts of COVID-19, and the ripple effects from the war in Ukraine push ...

The Green Ghana Day, which is aimed at creating a collective action towards the restoration of degraded landscapes in the ...

The Volta Regional Police Command has planted a total of 400 seedlings as part of the Green Ghana Project. Chief ...

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, on Friday planted a symbolic pine tree seedling at the Royal Golf Park, Kumasi, in ...

Are you a young farmer or agripreneur in Africa who is introducing new technologies or approaches to tackle climate change, food loss and waste, ...

develoPPP Ventures is aimed at young companies, whose innovative business model improves living conditions in a developing or emerging country ...

In a bid to boost the Ghanaian agricultural production amid fears of impending food insecurity due to global fertiliser shortage ...

Patronage of fertiliser for this year’s planting season is hitting a snag – an all-time low – as farmers are ...

Smallholder farmers in selected communities in northern Ghana are set to benefit from a project that seeks to improve their ...

The Ghana Incentive-Based Risk Sharing for Agricultural Lending (GIRSAL) is to collaborate with the newly established Development Bank Ghana (DBG) ...

The European Union Funded ReFIAL project, as part of its support to physically challenged farmers has extended relief services to ...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has assured Zoomlion Ghana Limited of government’s support to ensure that they produce ...

The leaderships of the Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) and the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) have asked all pastors ...

Although Rice has long been an important food staple in Ghana, its availability and consumption have depended heavily on imports ...

The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) Workers Co-operative Credit Union Limited (WCCU) has reduced its interest rate from three per ...

The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has organised Northern Business and Investment Fair 2022 to promote business and investment in ...

Representatives from Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Ghana Health Service (GHS), Greater Accra Veterinary Service ...

The chiefs, elders and youth of the Nii Dodoo Clottey Family of Pokuase in the Ga West Municipality have appealed ...

Executive Director of Agrihouse Foundation, Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa Sarpong has noted that, this year’s Gold in the Soil Awards, ...

Potatoes could contribute even more to world history and global food security, and total production of the food crop could ...

Stakeholders have discussed the progress of implementing Food System Resilience Project, (FSRP) to improve food and nutrition security in Ghana. ...

The General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU), Ghana Trade Union Congress (TUC) has cited the failure of successive governments to implement ...

Okyehene Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, the Paramount Chief of Akyem Abuakwa Traditional area, has urged Ghanaians to support government’s ...

Dr Akinwumi Akin Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, says there is no need for Africa ...

The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) is holding a-five-day training in export marketing fundamentals for exporters to help meet the ...

Mr Felix Ngmenkaara Darimaani, National Project Coordinator, Savannah Zone Agricultural Productivity Improvement Project (SAPIP), says Africa needs commercial agriculture to ...

Management of the Keta Senior High Technical School has started coconut and mango cultivation to generate revenue to address the ...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture says the passing of the Grains Development Authority bill will address current challenges of ...

The Wunzoya Association of Farmers at the Koduzeigu Community in the Savelugu Municipality of the Northern Region has appealed for ...

In late 2021, 43,281 cocoa trees affected by the swollen shoot disease were destroyed on 106.58 hectares of farmlands in ...

Cocoa production for the 2021/22 cocoa season has been forecasted to fall by one-third due to less conducive weather conditions and ...

It’s seven a.m. in Nano, a small town in the Tandjouaré prefecture of the Savanes region of northern Togo. It’s ...

It’s early in the morning and very cold. Abbas Jaafaru Julde is already awake and in his maize field busy ...

Founder and Managing Editor of Cocoa Post, Kojo Hayford, has been elected as the Media and Communication Officer for the ...

The Market Oriented Agriculture Programme in the North-West Ghana (MOAPNW), in partnership with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and ...

Ghana is likely to face  food shortage and hunger in the last quarter of 2022 and 2023, if government does ...

Mr Habibu Adam, a Senior Economist at the Office of the Senior Presidential Advisor has stated that continued global food ...

Following over four years of field investigations, crew interviews and satellite tracking, the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has published a ...

The Managing Director of the Agricultural Development Bank PLC (ADB), Dr. John Kofi Mensah, has said the bank is ready ...

Agrihouse Foundation chalked another grand success with the timely and colourful execution of the 2nd edition of the Ghana Chicken Festival (GHACHICK), ...

The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) has called for strategic investments in the seed systems of six staple ...

Dr Charles Kwowe Nyaaba, the Executive Director, Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), says the cost of food production in ...

Eight Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called on the European Commission (EC) to open negotiations with Cote D’Ivoire ...

Fairtrade Foundation has published a new report revealing key insights into factors that can either enable or jeopardise the ability ...

Revenue generation and sources of development funding are the most topical issues dominating public discourses today in Ghana. Various development ...

A report evaluating the work of AGRA in Ghana has commended the organization for its contribution to improving agriculture in the ...

A study by the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has recommended ...

Farmerline Group, the Africa continent’s amazon for African farmers has secured an estimated GHC 97 million in Pre-Series ‘A’ investment ...

At the beginning of each year, the CSAT-Mali and CSAT-Niger projects hold evaluation and planning workshops for their activities. Following ...

Investments in modern agriculture technology must involve the arts and science of farming, relying heavily on artificial intelligence (AI) and ...

AGRA and our partners in the Centre for African Leaders in Agriculture (CALA) – the African Management Institute and Policy ...

The Minister for Food and Agriculture Dr.Owusu Afriyie Akoto on Wednesday 9th March, 2022 performed the swearing in ceremony of the ...

This year’s fishing closed season will begin from July 1, 2022, to August 31, 2022, a press statement issued by ...

Given that agriculture consumes 70 percent of global water resources, it has become imperative for farming communities to change water ...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has authorised five Ghanaian soyabean-producing companies to export a recommended quantity of the commodity worth ...

It is no news that Ghana’s fisheries sector has been fraught with a myriad of challenges. These challenges according to ...

By Linda Dede  Nyanya Godji According to a World Bank study, women make up about 60% of the informal sector ...

The country needs to ban the export of some raw agro products that it has capacity to add value to, ...

Agriwealth Ghana Foundation, based in Kumasi, will hold the maiden edition of its flagship programme dubbed ‘Ghana Youth Agriculture summit’ ...

The Madina Job Center operating in the Office of the member of parliament for the Madina Constituency is proud to ...

The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has presented a cheque of GHC 600.000 to the 2021 National Best Farmer, Alhaji Mashud ...

Ghana, the European Union (EU), and AFD have signed a 44.7 million euros Agricultural Water Management Project (AWMP) Financing Agreements ...

The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto has asked the low-income, middle-income countries, and international to increase ...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has denied claims that Ghana imports cassava from China. The allegation of Ghana ...

The Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture, Alhaji Mohammed Hardi Tuferu, has stated emphatically that Agriculture helps to reduce poverty, ...

Extension services play a crucial role by improving skills and access to information that result in greater farm level innovations, ...

By: Sebastian Alesane The exacerbation and ramifications of Russia-Ukraine crisis might be catastrophic, while the ripple effects could spread across ...

The Agriculture Minister, Hon. Owusu Afriyie Akoto said that the government has spent more than half a billion dollars in ...

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has assured that it will play a key role to have ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has declared June 10, 2022, as this year’s Green Ghana Day, under the theme “Mobilising ...

Despite the gains made towards achieving Agricultural Transformational Development in Ghana, significant challenges remain in ensuring that the newly promoted ...

Ghana’s cocoa is one of the best in the world. It is cultivated in six regions in Ghana: Western, Central, ...

LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited was recently awarded the sum of a N592,204,667 co-investment grant by the USAID-funded West Africa Trade ...

The government of Ghana, Japan, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), a new project to strengthen the competencies ...

The USAID, West Africa Trade & Investment Hub and the Global Shea Alliance is organizing a 2.5 hours webinar dubbed ...

Prices of agro-inputs have skyrocketed in recent months now. This has been a big blow to the farmers in Ghana, ...

Ghana is the second world’s largest producer of Cocoa and according to the Ghana Cocoa Board, Ghana produced about 1 ...

The fate of the world’s wealthiest and poorest nations are interconnected, and eradicating poverty and hunger will be impossible without ...

African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) in collaboration with the International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC) and the Government of ...

The government has been urged to give locally manufactured organic fertiliser producers an equal opportunity as foreign fertiliser importers in ...

As part of the efforts to help address challenges hampering the cocoa and forestry sectors in the country, Rainforest Alliance ...

Leading global food manufacturer, Nestle S.A, has expressed its readiness to pay cocoa farmers in West Africa and elsewhere to ...

African Development Bank President, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has reiterated that the special agro-industrial processing zones program that will soon get ...

Marian Ofori Twumasi, the CEO Mariseth Farms, was adjourned the National Best Youth Farmer in December 2021. This is her ...

A thick, dark cloud is slowly forming in the sky and the rain could start any minute. Emiliana Lucas sighs ...

It is a beautiful Saturday morning and Abdulsalum Njelekela is in his field irrigating crops. He says, “I have access ...

  At 64, Elise Goueu has defied gender norms and achieved what many women in Ivory Coast consider impossible. Not ...

It’s a hot Saturday morning with a clear blue sky, though the heat indicates that rain will soon start falling. ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji Emmanuel Yaw Asamoah, a Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Agriculture graduate from the University of ...

44-year old Alhaji Mashud Mohammed has been adjudged the National Best Farmer for 2021. He succeeds Solomon Kwadwo Kusi who took ...

National Farmers’ Day is celebrated to honour and recognise the immeasurable contributions of farmers to the country’s food security and ...

For smallholder farmers in Ghana producing shea butter, bees are normally pests to swat away. But these insects will soon ...

The government has supported more than 500 poultry farmers in parts of the Central Region to expand their farms and ...

Minister for Agriculture has reassured that the government is leveraging on its digitalisation drive to spearhead technology-driven agriculture to empower ...

It’s Wednesday afternoon and the employees at Cajou Espoir (Cashew Hope) are dressed in blue blouses, yellow caps, and face ...

COCOBOD is projecting an ambitious target of raking in US$50billion in annual revenues from processing cocoa into other value-added products ...

For the past three years, Nigeria has been leading globally in the production of yam, palm oil, cassava, maize, and ...

A 3-day virtual Ghana Agribusiness Investment Summit has ended in Accra on the theme “Building a Resilient and Sustainable Ecosystem ...

  The Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER)-University of Ghana, Professor Peter Quartey, has advised ...

Agricultural Manufacturing Group (AMG) Ghana, a leading fertilizer marketing and technologies manufacturer is supporting the development of student entrepreneurs at ...

Hortifresh Fruits and vegetables that seek to promote sustainable and internationally competitive fruits and vegetable sectors to contribute to economic ...

BY: Gideon Kwame Sarkodie Osei More than 2,000 Ghanaian farmers have expressed their readiness to plant Bt cowpea, Ghana’s first ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji A strong and formidable agricultural sector is key in solving food security, nutrition, and income ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji The USAID West Africa Trade Hub believes that a thriving and resilient agricultural sector is ...

The Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA) is committed to transparency and continuous improvement of Human Rights cases in cocoa growing communities, ...

To increase productivity and sustainability among women in agribusiness, 13 women-led horticulture business owners have been trained and certified by ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji Seventy One (71) female agribusiness founders from 16 African countries on Thursday, graduated from Guzakuza’s ...

The African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) has appointed Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, a Ph.D. holder in Agronomy/ Soil Microbiology and ...

The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto has assured that new data made available to the government ...

Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) will later today sign a $1.5 billion Syndication Loan for the 2021/2022 cocoa crop season. The ...

It’s about 10 o’clock in the morning and the rice mills are clanking so loudly that it’s hard to hear ...

The Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Mrs. Mavis Hawa Koomson has tasked the newly constituted governing board of the ...

The shortage and price hikes of food commodities have been attributed to the exportation of food commodities to other African ...

Southern and Eastern Africa face the twin challenges of growing agricultural production to meet food demand while adapting to extreme ...

An initiative that will avail digital tools and training resources to small-scale farmers and agriculture-linked small businesses in Africa has ...

GIZ through the Sustainable Employment through Agribusiness (AgriBiz) Programme will continue to support female entrepreneurs in the agribusiness sector. “We ...

Demand for rice surpasses supply in most West African countries, forcing countries to import to make up for the deficit. ...

The management of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says it will be submitting written-off values of some expired agrochemicals and ...

While the Ghana Union of Traders Association, GUTA is calling for the maintenance of the 50% benchmark values reduction policy, ...

The Akwamuhene of Wenchi Traditional Area, Nana Owusu Gyare has revealed that over nine billion dollars ($9b) that the Kuffour’s ...

After several weeks of increases in food prices on the market, consumers should expect some stability and price reductions by ...

Dorothy Achieng stands with her hands on her hips in her pawpaw field on the shores of Lake Victoria. She ...

( When a ‘60s Volkswagen Beetle coloured green, yellow, and red rolls down the road, everyone in Siby knows who ...

By Linda Dede Nyanya Godji            It is a known fact most young people are usually not interested in take farming ...

The Kumasi-based Crop Research Institute has one of the best research infrastructures in the region, thanks to the support of ...

While the taro industry had collapsed entirely in Ghana, researchers of the Crop Research Institute of the Council for Scientific ...

Ghana and Ivory Coast have signed the Headquarters Agreement for the establishment of the Cote D’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative Secretariat in ...

Three women in Ghana’s agriculture value chain have been awarded by Guzakuza with the support from GIZ to highlight the ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), Delese Mimi Darko, has cautioned oil palm producers in ...

Ghana has exceeded the 1 million tonnes mark in cocoa production for the first time since the 2010/11 crop season. ...

Carrots are easy to grow as long as they are planted in loose, sandy soil. Depending on the variety and ...

Government says it is rolling out measures to digitize the distribution of fertilizer in the country. In recent times fertilizer ...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the West Africa Trade & Investment Hub, has awarded a $1.2 ...

A report by Heifer International Ghana has revealed that only 12 percent of the youth involved in agriculture have adopted ...

Despite agriculture becoming the main pillar of support for the economy in this pandemic period, the 2021 Heifer International Report ...

It is a hot sunny morning on a cloud-free day. Dressed in a red blouse and green chitenje, a cloth that ...

The Chamber of Agribusiness, Ghana, is asking government to take a second look at its fertilizer subsidy programme as it ...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture through its Veterinary Services Directorate has confirmed the outbreak of the Highly Pathogenic Avian ...

Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is collaborating with some fellows of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) to conduct ...

The Ranking Member on the Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs Committee in Parliament, Eric Opoku, wants government to immediately address ...

Poultry farmers and feed-millers across the country are expressing worry over a looming collapse of the local poultry industry due ...

Total expenditure allocation for the agriculture sector in the past four years, from 2017 to 2020, has stayed below one ...

Mr Georgios Badaro, Managing Director (MD), Nestlé Ghana Limited has said the company’s ambition of making cocoa more profitable for ...

By: Kingsley Adusei Amakye The Food Trade Coalition for Africa has organised its first meeting to coordinate food trade investments ...

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is planning to electronically pay all its farmers to stimulate the digital economy and also ...

The Northern Region has seen some 250,000 trees planted to mark the Green Ghana Project that seeks to plant five ...

The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Penn State University ...

The Ghana Rice Interprofessional Body (GRIB) has said it is negotiating with foreign companies to access financial support and drive ...

The Market-Oriented Agriculture Programme in North-Western Ghana (MOAP-NW), has trained a total of 85 seed producers and seed inspectors on ...

By: Gideon Kwame Sarkodie Osei The Ghana Agricultural and Rural Development Journalists Association (GARDJA) has petitioned the Agriculture Minister calling ...

Greenhouse farming is a thriving sector in Italy thanks to companies with decades of experience in providing cutting-edge greenhouse technologies ...

It was early one morning in October 2020 and the sun was shining brightly over Buta Feyisa’s compound. Behind the ...

The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto says Ghana is on course to becoming rice sufficient by ...

Sri Lanka has imposed a ban on palm oil imports and ordered oil palm plantations in the country to be ...

Olam Food Ingredients (OFI), a leading supplier of cocoa beans and cocoa ingredients – and one of the largest private ...

World Vision Ghana, a Non- Governmental Organisation, NGO, today, cuts sod for the construction of a 2000 capacity poultry farm worth $74,778 ...

Even though agriculture has become the most thriving sector over the past one year due to the coronavirus pandemic’s impact, ...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has rolled out implementation guidelines to ensure efficient distribution of subsidized fertilizer and ...

Agrihouse Foundation, in partnership with the United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) – Ghana Poultry Project (GPP), is set to ...

Honey consumption has increased across the globe over the years due to consumer demand for quality natural sweeteners in place ...

CDC Group, the U.K. government’s development investment arm, is taking a step to help bridge what it estimates is a ...

Jane Hozheri used to run a small business with her daughter in Cape Town, South Africa. Together, they made a ...

Elizabeth Siyapi is a farmer in Shurugwi, Zimbabwe. Instead of working through agricultural middlemen, she relies on her phone. Before ...

The first rains began to fall a few weeks ago, heralding the long growing season in southern Togo. Farmers are ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji. Despite the enormous benefits of agriculture , financing remains one of the bottlenecks to fully ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji USAID supported Feed the Future Ghana Mobilizing Finance in Agriculture (MFA) Activity has been launched ...

The members of the Council of State have said they are in support of efforts to stop illegal mining activities ...

The maiden edition of the Ghana Chicken Festival (GHACHICK) is set to come off on the 3rd of May 2021 at ...

Agriculture is perceived to be a dirty job reserved for the aged. Youth of today, after graduating from the tertiary ...

Agriculture is a major employability contributing to about 33 percent of the total working force in Ghana. In tackling food ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji Adwoa Nyibi is a small-scale farmer in the Bono East Region of Ghana who is ...

Richard Twumasi-Ankrah, Director for Policy, Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, has indicated that smallholder ...

“VALUE4HERConnect, Africa’s first agri-business intelligence platform aimed at facilitating growth and development of women owned agri-enterprises was launched in Accra ...

Who controls the world's food supply? Seed laws criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops that stand a better chance of ...

In recent years, a number of innovative entrepreneurs have stepped in to help reverse the declining state of the agricultural ...

Government has announced the creation of a Ghana Land Information Bank (GhLIB), to provide a reliable and easily accessible information ...

The Coronavirus pandemic took a heavy toll on human lives and economic activity which has made the eradication of poverty ...

Women form a greater proportion in Ghana’s agriculture value chain yet they struggle to get market accessibility for their produce. ...

Moringa oleifera, called nebedaye in Senegal, is considered a “miracle” tree that helps address food insecurity and major environmental problems. Because ...

Most families in northern DRC’s Tshopo province, can’t afford electricity to cook. Instead, they rely on locally-produced wood charcoal to ...

The government of Ghana is committed to assist the development of the women and youth in agriculture to ensure that ...

The success of the dairy farm relies on the success of the calf management program. Lifetime productivity starts when the ...

Due to the popular misconceptions about agriculture, many young Africans have no interest in agribusiness ventures. Upon completing their academic ...

The president of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo-Addo has said that cocoa farmers are to ...

The initiative designed to revamp and build capacities for the livestock, poultry, and fisheries sector players by the Agrihouse Foundation ...

By Linda Dede Nyanya Godji   Zaa fm in Tamale and Elmina’s Ahomka fm have received an internationally recognized broadcaster’s ...

It’s a fine, windy morning and Sarah Aryee is neatly dressed in a white T-shirt and Ghanaian wrap, her hair ...

The Koudijs Ghana Limited has unveiled the high complete quality made-in-Ghana poultry layer feed for farmers for optimum performance of ...

Some farmers and aggregators, also known as middle-men, in the Northern Region have refused to release maize unto the market, hoping ...

It’s no secret that agriculture is the main driving force behind Ghana’s economy, accounting for approximately 42% of the country’s ...

The word “Soy” itself originated as a corruption of the Chinese or Japanese names for soy sauce; yet, soybeans were ...

Unfortunately, many big species now face extinction due to their value in the illegal wildlife trade, vulnerability to habitat degradation ...

The 4th edition of the Agricultural Students career guidance and mentorship dialogue Bootcamp (AG-STUD), a practical agribusiness beginners’ capacity building ...

BY: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji The Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Prof. Amin Alhasan has called on ...

Benso Oil Palm Plantation (BOPP) has reported a topline growth of 29.5%, against 20.9% in the same period of 2019, ...

Revenue in exports from coffee for the year 2018 was US$34,000. This is according to the President of the Coffee ...

The year 2021 kicks off with two initiatives which respond to the pandemic for La Liste, a prominent restaurant finder ...

It’s early in the morning and Asfo Wass wakes up with much energy, eager to care for his chickens. He ...

The Commodity Brokers Association of Ghana (CBAG) president, Yaw Ohemeng Kyei, has called on government to introduce a 20 percent ...

Bayer Crop Science Ltd will provide training to 15,000 smallholder farmers in the country on advanced agricultural practices. The training ...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has set out to implement the “National Fertilizer Expansion Programme. The aim of ...

Ms. Rose Goslinga Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at PULA, an African Agricultural Insurance, and Technology Service Provider has revealed ...

The Covid–19 pandemic has brought most countries to their knees, disrupting many economies leaving no one in its disruptive grip. ...

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

A thick, dark cloud slowly engulfs the sky. Although it hasn’t rained for the past two days, it will certainly ...

By: Gideon Kwame Sarkodie Osei   In her small home in Bono East region of Ghana surrounded by her four ...

By:Gideon Kwame Sarkodie Osei Agricultural journalism plays a key role in food security, but is often lacking in many African ...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has resolved to implement more digital agricultural innovations to give more meaning to ...

Economist Dr Adu Sarkodie says the impact of COVID-19 on the economy is a clear indicator that the government has ...

As part of the medium-term plan for the trade of commodities in Ghana, the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX) is considering ...

Government is preparing to meet fruit and vegetable exporters who may be negatively impacted as the United Kingdom (UK) prepares ...

African Development Bank President Akinwumi A. Adesina has been announced as a champion of Africa’s Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative. ...

Irish potato farmers in Meru should utilise a 250- tonne cold storage facility whose construction is set for completion in ...

The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Agriculture on Saturday, January 9, 2021 distributed farming inputs to smallholder farmers ...

As the country ushers into New Year 2021 more than 100,600 smallholder farmers in the country will be receiving grain ...

Mr. Yaw Biredu Boateng, the Chief Cocoa Farmer of New Nsutam in the Eastern Region, has called for the protection ...

Something has to be done to tackle the environmental problems caused by climate change, desertification and population growth,” says Barkissa ...

There has been growing concern about the availability of maize in the country, a situation that affects our food security ...

This story was originally published in April 2019 by Farm radio international. In eastern Burundi, nurseries of forest tree species ...

Business Consultant, Nataki Kambon, says Ghana stands to benefit immensely from the Africa Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (‎AfCFTA) if ...

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

Farmers cultivating cucumis melon, also known as yellow melon, say a chunk of their produce is left to go waste ...

The Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX) has added rice contracts to the number of commodities traded on its electronic trading platform. ...

The Ghana Civil Society Cocoa Platform by this statement affirms its support for the decision taken by COCOBOD and CCC ...

At a time when hunger and poverty are increasing due to conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, some of ...

Since the early 1990s, farmers in coastal Tanzania have been worrying about how rising sea levels are affecting their crops. ...

The world has a seemingly insatiable taste for coffee. But rising temperatures, drought, and erratic rainfall are making it harder ...

The shortage of maize across the Northern Region and some other parts of the country is affecting business activities of poultry ...

Your mother was right all along – breakfast actually is the most important meal of the day. Most of the ...

Professor Boniface B. Kayang, the Project Coordinator of the Ghana Grasscutter Project, has stated that the future of grasscutter farming ...

The Programmes Manager of Conservation Alliance (CA), Mr. Raymond Owusu-Achiaw, and his organization have declared their support for the ongoing ...

The Managing Campaigner for EcoCare Ghana Mr. Obed Owusu-Addai and his organization have thrown their support behind the ongoing “Securing ...

Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire have set their price tag for cocoa to counter unfair trade in the international market. To ...

Stakeholders in Conservation Agriculture (CA) held discussions at a two-day summit in Accra, to develop a consolidated Manual for CA ...

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) in collaboration with USAID has organized a two-day workshop on “Development ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji The use of fertilisers and  chemicals such as weedicides, herbicides and pesticides is becoming dominant ...

The Alliance for a Green Revolution for Africa (AGRA) and its implementing partners joined stakeholders in Ghana’s agricultural sector to ...

Cocoa is the chief agricultural export of Ghana and Ghana’s main cash crop. Ghana is the second-largest cocoa exporter in ...

A two-day cashew pricing workshop to propose a pricing model for cashew in Ghana is underway in Accra. The workshop ...

  The advent of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) tends to produce wholesome foods which in turn might ...

The District Chief Executive (DCE) of Shai Osudoku, Hon. Daniel Teye Akuffo has lamented the rate at which real estate ...

Ghana has banned poultry imports from the Netherlands, Germany, Russia, and Denmark over bird flu. The government has temporarily banned ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said it will put in place stricter measures to reduce the spate of ...

The care given to a calf within its first 24 hours of life is essential as well as mandatory, as ...

“There is no need for a crop authority, Ghana just needs an agriculture regulatory authority and put all other government ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji (Farm Radio Int. Project) Comfort Appiah beams with delight as she inspects her flourishing cocoa ...

The SNV Ghana Green Employment and Enterprise Opportunities (GrEEn) Project has organised a job fair for the youth at Agona ...

A 55-year-old farmer, Solomon Kwadwo Kusi, has been adjudged the National Best Farmer for 2020 at a ceremony held in ...

The Chamber of Aquaculture (COA) Ghana salutes all Farmers on the 36th edition of National Farmers Day. The COA acknowledges ...

On the occasion of the 36th National Farmers’ Day celebrations in Techiman in the Bono East Region, Farmer Radio International ...

Chemico Limited, Ghana’s pioneer Agro-inputs company, has supported this year’s Farmers Day celebration with over GH¢400,000. The company handed over ...

Implementer of the Cocoa Life programme, Mondelez International, has introduced a new technology that seeks to help triple annual yields ...

Starting today, November 2 until November 6, 2020, the Methodist Park at Techiman in the Bono East Region will be ...

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), OXFAM, and the Friends of the Nation (FoN) has launched a campaign to ...

Deputy Agric Minister Kennedy Nyarko Osei has said by 2023, government is planning to either ban or drastically reduce the ...

Two new Competitor Analysis reports recently released by the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) indicate that massive untapped foreign market ...

A recent study carried out under the IITA-CARE project, covering six southern departments in the Benin Republic reveals the agriculture ...

Olam Ghana, a wholly-owned subsidiary of leading food and agri-business Olam International, has launched its locally grown and sourced rice ...

At Kofiase, a community in the Mampong municipality of the Ashanti Region of Ghana, members of a Village Savings and ...

Private sector actors in the oil palm value chain, when given the right knowledge and needed financial support, are able to ...

Some cocoa farmers in the Wassa enclave of the Western Region have resorted to proceeds they realise from trading-off portions ...

Kolda is an agro-pastoral zone in southern Senegal with good rainfall. Here, one farming activity supports another. For example, cattle ...

Wématou Ougue farms in Tiébélé, a village in south-central Burkina Faso more than 150 kilometres from the capital, Ouagadougou. Mr. ...

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), in its attempt to collate and leverage data on cocoa famers across the country for ...

The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI) is carrying out a field trial ...

Despite government’s flirtations with other modern-day endeavours, agriculture has retained its role as the undisputed essence of our local economy. ...

A plan by the Ghana Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA) to implement a pricing regime has been met with resistance ...

EU Resilience Against Climate Change (EU-REACH), on 13 October, kicked-off a 2-day workshop in Wa, Upper West Region, to share ...

Ghana will produce an additional 91,000 metric tonnes of fish for fours years under the Healthy Food Africa Project, Madam ...

The Ashanti Regional Department of Food and Agriculture is collaborating with Rejuvenate Gaia Global, licensed importers of Greenfert organic fertilizer, ...

With support from the African Cashew Alliance (ACA), stakeholders in the cashew sector have launched the Cashew Council Ghana (CCG) ...

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) is appealing to government, institutions and members of the public to buy their ...

The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has announced that his outfit has completed all processes ...

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) will next year inject US$200 million into domestic cocoa processing. The money will be given ...

As farmers and consumers grapple with disruptions in the global food supply chain, we are witnessing an exacerbation of threats ...

Farm Radio and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) are collaborating to develop Digital Agricultural advisory strategy and plan ...

Recently, Genetic Modify Foods (GMOs) are believed to have been introduced in Ghana’s food system creating anxiety among consumers. Ghana ...

The Savanah Agriculture Research Institute of the Council for Scientific Industrial Research (CSRI-SARI), has introduced high yielding groundnut varieties to ...

Mr Hayford Yao Dometi, founder of Effort Beekeepers Association in the South Dayi District of the Volta Region, has appealed ...

The government is committed to implementing comprehensive agricultural policies to ensure uninterrupted supply value chains and strong market linkages to ...

The Ashanti Region has since the launch of government flagship programme Planting for Food and Jobs in 2017 registered six ...

The torrential rains that devastated parts of the North East Region recently have subsided, but the humanitarian situation in the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic struck Ghana at a time when the country was grappling with youth unemployment, effects of climate change, ...

Ghana joins the rest of the World to celebrate the 40th World Food Day at the State House in Accra ...

Smallholder farmers in the country still experience as high as 30 percent post-harvest losses, mostly through spoilage and theft, a ...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has inaugurated a GH¢2.7 million vegetable packhouse for the sorting and packaging of ...

Radio is the principal medium for receiving climate information by most farmers with social media being the least, a Kwame ...

  The Food Policy Forum for Change will be launched at the upcoming High-Level Special Event of the Committee on World Food ...

unknowns: the risk of political unrest disrupting supplies and the demand hit from COVID-19. Bigger crops in West Africa would ...

The food systems that must give daily sustenance to all humans are under threat by the pandemic. If we want ...

Bobo Dioulasso is a farming city in Burkina Faso. After cotton, cereals are the second largest agricultural product in terms ...

It’s around eight o’clock in the morning and Bello Iliyasu is already riding a motorcycle—not by choice, but because there ...

Ramatoulaye Badji is a farmer and vendor in the Thies region, 70 kilometres east of Dakar, Senegal. In the afternoons, ...

The 2020 National Farmers’ Day has been launched by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture ...

Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology says the Federal government of Nigeria is working on plans to mechanise ...

President Akufo-Addo has announced a new producer price for Cocoa for the 2020/2021 crop season. The government has pegged the ...

Mr. Bright Katamani completed Senior Secondary school some years ago and when he realized his parents had little funds to ...

The District Chief Executive for Nkoranza North in the Bono East Region, Hon. Gifty Arkosah Author has today through the ...

Four days, 10,400 voices, speaking to the need for inclusive agricultural transformation. Farmers, Presidents, entrepreneurs, and others coming together around ...

The 10th annual Alliance for Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) comes to an end today with a high level presidential discussion ...

The 2020 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) will be held under the leadership of H.E. President Paul Kagame and the ...

OCP Africa, in a partnership agreement with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), has increased its efforts to support ...

Ghana’s cocoa products will soon enjoy zero tariffs on China’s market should everything go as planned. This is according to ...

Ghana has recovered from the initial drawback in food production as a result of the COVID-19   pandemic, avoiding an imminent ...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture on Wednesday, at a short ceremony in Accra  received some Covid-19 PPEs and sanitary ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji The effect of Covid-19 on farming across the length of breadth of the country is ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji The agric sector could be more productive and lucrative, if authorities ensured high standards are ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji Malom Foods started as a backyard farm in 2014 at Dodowa in the Greater Accra ...

China appears to be launching a significant expansion of its distant water fishing fleet around the world and most notably ...

The farming season is underway in much of West Africa and farmers are feeling the impacts of COVID-19 in new ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has on Tuesday August 4 visited Akro Farms Ltd., a 1-District1-Factory (1D1F) initiative at Apasare, ...

The Ghana COCOBOD says it is importing electronic weighing scales for Cocoa License Buying companies to prevent the tampering of ...

By Gidean Kwame Sarkodie Osei Raymond Yaotse, Project Manager of United Purpose Ghana’s Partnership for Accelerated Local Economic Development in ...

The McDan Foundation has broken the ground for the construction of shea nut processing factory and warehouse at Nasia in ...

By: agrighanaonline.com The initiative which was outdoored yesterday on Zoom will help mobilize funds via gofundme, Alexpay & Facebook to ...

  The Agric Minister is worried about vegetable production in the country losing out on a projected $3 billion annually. ...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture says the Covid-19 pandemic has positively impacted Ghana’s cashew processing sector. MOFA says seven ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji Demeter Ghana Limited is an agricultural focused company, committed to providing agricultural solutions to farmers. ...

The Asante Mampong Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Thomas Appiah Kubi, has cut a sod for the construction of a maize ...

The Chairman of the Assinman Cocoa Farmers’ Cooperative and Marketing Union Limited (AMCOFUL), Mr Theophilus Tamakloe,  has called for a ...

The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MOFAD) said there would be no closed season this year due to the ...

Dropcap the popularization of the “ideal measure” has led to advice such as “Increase font size for large screens and ...

The Asene Manso Akroso District Assembly is to acquire equipment to add value to agriculture produce under the Planting for ...

Intro text we refine our methods of responsive web design, we’ve increasingly focused on measure and its relationship to how ...

The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has procured and presented 1,260 protective working clothing to a women’s group in the ...

The District Chief Executive of Adaklu has urged the youths of the community and the Volta Region at large to ...

The rapid production growth of cashew in the country, especially within the forest-transition zone, is consuming sizeable farmlands and thus ...

Commodity price survey Service Company, Esoko Ghana, has reiterated the need for government to be deliberate about fixing roads leading ...

Toxic chemicals are being used by food sellers across Sub-Saharan Africa to improve the look of meat and fish, scientists ...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) and the Ministry of Local Governance and Rural Development (MLGRD) on Friday 26th June, 2020 ...

Upfield Foods, the largest plant-based consumer products company in the world, has launched a new initiative and global advocacy platform ...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR, says it is collaborating with allied institutions to improve food processing to ...

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana, PFAG, has warned that the country could suffer rice shortage this year following the ...

A Lecturer of Marine Geochemistry at the Department of Marine and Fisheries Sciences of the University of Ghana, Dr. Edem ...

It appears that inasmuch as the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many economic activities and led to job losses, other sectors ...

Ghana supplies 70% of all cocoa beans imported into Japan and cocoa is seen as one of the nation’s ...

Source: Joy Business   The Women in Poultry Value Chain (WIPVaC) has called for the speedy implementation of the ECOWAS Veterinary Pharmacy ...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), Joseph Boahene Aidoo has hinted of conclusive discussions with President ...

In Nigeria’s Kano state, some tomato farmers slice and dry fresh tomatoes in the sun to avoid losing so many ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji Mr. Ben Archen, a Ghanaian born electrical engineer who is currently living in Germany has ...

Players in the livestock industry are calling on the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to initiate long-term policies to ensure ...

Sugarcane growers at Komenda in the Central Region, are calling on government to support them financially to grow more sugarcane ...

Construction works will start on a six-acre land at Gbedzekope in the Akame Electoral Area for a Cassava Processing Factory ...

Agric officers at Agona in the Sekyere South District of the Ashanti Region have begun processes to add value to ...

Charcoal selling in the Koforidua Municipality has drastically gone down due to covid-19 Pandemic and the partial lockdown that was ...

By: Nana Agyapong, Nkoranza Watermelon farmers in Nkoranza north and south in the Bono east region are crying bitterly due ...

By Nana Agyapong, Nkoranza The 2018 national best farmer, Mr James Obeng Boateng has commended the government for the various ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji With the stress and money invested in farming and the several reported challenges associated with ...

By Linda Dede Nyanya Godji “Even before I became a professional farmer, I had said to myself "I wouldn't be ...

Over 80 per cent of agribusinesses in Ghana confirm that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a toll on their operations ...

The World Bank Group approved today a US$500 million program to help countries in Africa and the Middle East fight ...

The Ghana National Poultry Farmers Association is calling on government to design a special package for poultry farmers engaged ...

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) through the Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) has presented a total of 99,468 bags ...

Vegetable farmers at Akomadan in the Offinso North District, have participated in a small farmer group meeting to observe the ...

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji / agrighanaonline.com He pursued Agricultural Technology and majored in Agronomy at the University of Development ...

By:agrighanaonline.com As part of efforts to help strengthen Ghana’s livestock sector, the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), has announced a 500 ...

The coronavirus pandemic has almost not spared any sector of the world’s economy. In Ghana, the agric sector has also ...

In as much as he encourages the youth to delve into farming and agriculture in general, renowned actor, farmer, and ...

  The Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, is appealing to the country’s security forces to pursue ...

The Ghana Peasant Farmers Association, has advised government to have a long-term plan to cushion farmers against unforeseen circumstances and ...

By: Gideon Kwame Sarkodie Osei The  Ghana Agricultural  and  Rural  Development  Journalists Association  (GARDJA)  has  launched  an advocacy  initiative  to ...

By TONY BLAIR, AGNES KALIBATA (AGRA) Protecting food supply chains is the key missing component of an effective COVID-19 strategy. Global ...

Mrs Ida Maganga is a farmer who grows potatoes and tomatoes in Dedza district, Malawi. The 35-year-old mother of is ...

By:agrighanaonline.com One of the major companies in Ghana’s agriculture industry, RMG Ghana Limited, has announced a 100,000 cedis support package ...

The Vegetable Producers and Exporters Association of Ghana is lamenting the over 100% increase in the cost of exporting their ...

One of the major challenge facing rural farmers has to do with storage of their produce. Without the proper and ...

Mr. Geoffrey Komakech is a poultry farmer in Uganda’s Gulu district who has taken up construction work for extra income. ...

For two years running the country’s agriculture sector has experienced declines in growth, despite an impressive performance in 2017 after ...

Deforestation is a major issue in the most communities in Senegal. To show their commitment to defending forests, one of ...

By: Prince Karikari The Agric Ministry has cautioned farmers on the resurgence of Fall Armyworms in the country. The ministry ...

By:agrighanaonline.com The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie-Akoto, has announced that the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, ...

By: Bagbara Tanko (MoFA) The Covid-19 pandemic now entering its fourth month has sparked an unprecedented global health crisis that ...

Source: Farm Radio International About 500 students at Dano C primary school in the province of Ioba, in the ...

By: Yaw Asamoah   Farming is an ancient profession. In the olden days, farming was the major work of the ...