Tag: Farmers

On Saturday, President John Dramani Mahama honored his campaign pledge by cutting the sod for a new Farmer Services Centre ...

The Crops Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-CRI), has expressed deep concern about the use of cement powder ...

Volta Youth in Agriculture has released a press statement applauding Dr. Andy Osei Okrah and his team for successfully organizing ...

Ghana’s mango sector supports farmers and exports but faces price volatility and weak transparency, creating the need for a structured ...

For years, 52-year-old Stella Nyaaba moved between markets in Bongo, Bolgatanga and Navrongo, struggling to sell parboiled rice amid high ...

Madam Sandra Seyram Kpedor, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Anloga, in the Volta Region has demonstrated her commitment to supporting local farmers by handing ...

Dr. Mrs. Rachel Cann, the Ledzokuku Municipal Director of Agriculture, has called on residents, farmers, and stakeholders nationwide to collaborate ...

The government, led by President John Dramani Mahama, continues to place agriculture at the forefront of its national reset agenda. ...

Parliament has praised the nation’s hardworking farmers for their vital role in national development as Ghana prepares to mark Farmers’ ...

The Keta Municipal Assembly in the Volta Region will hold this year’s Farmers’ Day celebration at Hatorgodo on November 27, ...

A study by Innovations for Sustainable Rural Development shows that better access to farmland significantly improves women’s income, food security, ...

Mr. Collins Asomah, District Chief Executive for Berekum West in the Bono Region, has announced that the Assembly has received ...

The Ghana National Cocoa Farmers Association (GNACOFA) has extended its sincere appreciation to the Government and COCOBOD for the recent ...

Recent outbreaks highlight the urgent need for coordinated global action to combat a virus threatening animal health, livelihoods, and pandemic ...

A soil research scientist has stressed the need for Ghana to prioritize building its soil organic matter and strengthening soil ...

A 26-year-old farmer has been incarcerate into prison custody by the Nkawie Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality ...

Mr. Nicholas Issaka Gbana, a Development Economist and Chartered Accountant, has raised concerns over the parallel implementation of the Ministry ...

According to the 2022 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS), only 12.7 percent of women in Ghana own farmland, either ...

President John Dramani Mahama has announced a bold plan to expand Ghana’s cocoa sector by adding 200,000 hectares of cocoa ...

The Livelihood and Environment Ghana (LEG), an environmentally-centered non-governmental organisation (NGO), says it has upped climate resilient adaptation strategies, empowering ...

Deadline: 30th May, 2025 The Agritech ClimAccelerator Singapore, powered by Better Earth Ventures and Climate KIC, empowers climate-focused startups to deliver ...

With  smallholder agriculture employing more than 60% of Africa’s workforce, experts emphasize boosting energy access as a critical input to ...

Deadline: 23rd April, 2025. Grant Scheme call aims to support efforts to increase forest cover in Ghana with the ambition ...

World Vision Ghana (WVG) has committed US$8million to assist farmers and vulnerable households impacted by the 2024 drought. The support ...

Nana Owusu Achiaw Brempong, a 70-year-old farmer from the Sekyere Central district in the Ashanti Region, has been honoured as ...

The Ashanti Regional Department of Food and Agriculture in collaboration with New Okaff Industries Limited has sensitized farmers in the ...

Paramount Chief of Salifu Krom, a farming community in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti Region, Nana Amenyo Kwaku ...

Climate resilient improved maize and cowpea varieties have been introduced to some farmers in the Northern Region to help them ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji Ghana recorded its first corona virus cases on March 12, 2020 involving a Norwegian Embassy ...

Ugandan farmer and mother of 14, Josephine Nalwadda, recently learned new methods that are helping this experienced farmer save more. ...

At least 2,000 poultry farmers have enrolled for the first phase of the broiler module of the ‘Rearing for Food ...

Farmers in some communities in the Tano North and South Municipalities of the Ahafo Region, are lamenting the influx of ...

Jean Paul Sebarera had given up on growing cassava after brown streak disease, known locally as kabore, devastated plantations in ...

This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from The Deutsche Gesellscaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit GjbH (GIZ) ...

Farmers in one of Columbia’s most vulnerable community have undergone training to be able to yield results in crop production ...

Over a 12-year period, as rainfall became increasingly erratic, farmer Shemsu Hussein moved from rain-fed agriculture to intensive small-scale irrigated ...