Mofa, new okaff sensitize farmers on organic fertilizer usage
The Ashanti Regional Department of Food and Agriculture in collaboration with New Okaff Industries Limited has sensitized farmers in the ...
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Chief urges gov’t, agric stakeholders to provide financial support to farmers
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 introduced to farmers
Climate resilient improved maize and cowpea varieties have been introduced to some farmers in the Northern Region to help them ...
Farmerline gets GHC 97 million to support African agribusinesses
Farmerline Group, the Africa continent’s amazon for African farmers has secured an estimated GHC 97 million in Pre-Series ‘A’ investment ...
Farmers in Bono East ready to grow GM cowpea
BY: Gideon Kwame Sarkodie Osei More than 2,000 Ghanaian farmers have expressed their readiness to plant Bt cowpea, Ghana’s first ...
Warc Ghana poised to scale-up fortunes of smallholder farmers in Northern Ghana.
By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji A strong and formidable agricultural sector is key in solving food security, nutrition, and income ...
Gov’t allocation to Agric stays below 1% in 4 years.
Total expenditure allocation for the agriculture sector in the past four years, from 2017 to 2020, has stayed below one ...
Payment of cocoa farmers to go digital – COCOBOD.
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is planning to electronically pay all its farmers to stimulate the digital economy and also ...
Zimbabwe: Phone-based applications for farmers are gaining popularity—but many barriers remain
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?
Who controls the world's food supply? Seed laws criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops that stand a better chance of ...
Farmers in the north hoard maize in anticipation of high prices
Some farmers and aggregators, also known as middle-men, in the Northern Region have refused to release maize unto the market, hoping ...
Bayer Crop to train 15,000 farmers.
Bayer Crop Science Ltd will provide training to 15,000 smallholder farmers in the country on advanced agricultural practices. The training ...
Storage facilities close to grain producing communities key to alleviate plight of farmers.
In Ghana, maize farmers often release their full yields to the market immediately after harvest. Because of the mechanics of ...
Burundi: Farmers make baskets from banana “stems” to protect the environment
This story was originally published in April 2019 by Farm radio international. In eastern Burundi, nurseries of forest tree species ...
Tanzania: Seawalls and mangroves help island-based farmers fight sea-rise due to climate change (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Since the early 1990s, farmers in coastal Tanzania have been worrying about how rising sea levels are affecting their crops. ...
Solidaridad supports farmers to increase their productivity
At Kofiase, a community in the Mampong municipality of the Ashanti Region of Ghana, members of a Village Savings and ...
Yara facilitates training for farmers at commemorative 10th pre-harvest conference and exhibition
Despite government’s flirtations with other modern-day endeavours, agriculture has retained its role as the undisputed essence of our local economy. ...
COCOBOD to invest US$200 million towards domestic cocoa processing.
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) will next year inject US$200 million into domestic cocoa processing. The money will be given ...
Post-harvest losses remain a challenge to smallholder farmers in in Ghana – Study
Smallholder farmers in the country still experience as high as 30 percent post-harvest losses, mostly through spoilage and theft, a ...
Nigeria: How farmers face difficulties accessing farm inputs during COVID-19 lockdown
It’s around eight o’clock in the morning and Bello Iliyasu is already riding a motorcycle—not by choice, but because there ...
District Assembly to acquire machinery to boost agri-business
The Asene Manso Akroso District Assembly is to acquire equipment to add value to agriculture produce under the Planting for ...
Nigeria: Farmers dry tomatoes to reduce post-harvest losses
In Nigeria’s Kano state, some tomato farmers slice and dry fresh tomatoes in the sun to avoid losing so many ...
COCOBOD CEO decries destruction of cocoa farms by illegal miners
The Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, is appealing to the country’s security forces to pursue ...
Malawi: COVID-19 social distancing measures disrupt markets and farmers’ income
Mrs Ida Maganga is a farmer who grows potatoes and tomatoes in Dedza district, Malawi. The 35-year-old mother of is ...
Impact of Covid-19 on food security in Ghana and way forward
By: Linda Dede Nyanya Godji Ghana recorded its first corona virus cases on March 12, 2020 involving a Norwegian Embassy ...
Uganda: Financial Literacy Training Aids Coffee Farmers to Improve Revenue
Ugandan farmer and mother of 14, Josephine Nalwadda, recently learned new methods that are helping this experienced farmer save more. ...
2,000 poultry farmers to start broiler module of RFJ programme
At least 2,000 poultry farmers have enrolled for the first phase of the broiler module of the ‘Rearing for Food ...
Farmers In Tano North & South Cry Over Harmful Agro-Chemicals
Farmers in some communities in the Tano North and South Municipalities of the Ahafo Region, are lamenting the influx of ...
Rwanda: Farmers in need get free disease-resistant cassava
Jean Paul Sebarera had given up on growing cassava after brown streak disease, known locally as kabore, devastated plantations in ...
Nigeria: Farmers adopt recommended practices to manage late blight in Irish potato
This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from The Deutsche Gesellscaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit GjbH (GIZ) ...
Household farmers in Columbia’s drought prone community (La Guajira), receive support to boost food production.
Farmers in one of Columbia’s most vulnerable community have undergone training to be able to yield results in crop production ...
Ethiopia: Irrigated farming helps farmers produce more, even when the rain is erratic.
Over a 12-year period, as rainfall became increasingly erratic, farmer Shemsu Hussein moved from rain-fed agriculture to intensive small-scale irrigated ...
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