Ghana: LBSs to Start Paying Cocoa Farmers Today--Dr Owusu Afriyie

Cocoa farmers across the country who have not been paid by their Local Buying Companies (LBCs) for their cocoa beans are expected to from today Monday start getting paid. Read more »

Ghana: Ghana's Fish Landing Sites Under Threat - Fon

About half of Ghana's fish landing sites across the coast are under threat, Friends of the Nation (FoN), a non-governmental organisation has said. Read more »

Ghana: 'Pesticides Use By Cocoa Farmers Must Be Less Harmful'

Conservation Alliance (CA) has called on stakeholders in the cocoa sector to ensure that pesticides used by cocoa farmers are less harmful to crops and human. Read more »

Ghana: Pres Launches Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme

A cocoa farmers pension scheme for farmers was yesterday launched here by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Read more »

Ghana: UNDP, Vodafone Ghana Foundation Train 61 Rural Women in Agribusiness

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the Vodafone Ghana Foundation has organised a two-day trainer of trainees' digital technology empowerment… Read more »

Ghana: Mobile Phone App to Support Fight Against Illegal Fishing Launched

A new mobile phone application (App) that seeks to support the fight against illegal fishing activities in the country, has been launched in Cape Coast, in the Central Region Read more »

Ghana: Wilmar Africa Supports Local Rice Industry - Unveils Two Local Rice Brands

Wilmar Africa Limited, on Monday launched two new brands of local rice in Ghana with the aim of supporting local rice farmers in the country. Read more »

Ghana: TIAST Group to Boost Incomes of Farmers

Farmers and players along the agricultural value chain in Tamale, in the Northern region are set to boost their incomes and livelihoods, thanks to the latest agricultural… Read more »

Ghana: Certificate Covering Cocobod Contract for Fertilizer Invalid - Witness

A witness has told the Accra High court that the certificate covering the contract signed between Ghana COCOBOD and Agricult Ghana Limited in 2015, for the supply of lithovit… Read more »

Ghana: Burkina Faso's Thriving Cotton Industry - Any Lessons for Ghana's Ailing One?

On March 2011, the late Professor Evans Fiifi Atta-Mills launched a programme of action to revive the ailing cotton industry in the country. Dubbed: "The White Gold" campaign, the… Read more »

Ghana: Technology for All-Year-Round Cocoa Production Unveiled

A new technology designed to supply continuous water to cocoa farmers for all-year-round production has been introduced by Mondelez International, implementer of Cocoa Life… Read more »

Ghana: EU-Funded Agric Project Launched

An European Union (EU)-funded agricultural project, Research for Development and Innovation Agriculture and Learning (ReDIAL), aimed at contributing to the transformation and… Read more »

Ghana: Akuapem Gold Grows Avocado for Oil, Export

Akuapem Gold Avocado Cultivation and Processing Limited is nursing 1.5 million avocado seedlings for its nucleus and out-growers' farms to process fruit for oil and also export the… Read more »

Ghana: Field Guide to the Fish Species of the Volta Lake, Ghana & a Catalogue of Small Scale Fishing Gear of the Volta Lake , Ghana

The Volta Lake is the largest man-made lake in Africa with a surface area of 87,700 m2. It is one of Ghana's major sources of protein and livelihood for about 300,000 fisher folks… Read more »

Africa: Agric Holds Key to Africa's Economic Recovery - AGRA

The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), says agriculture holds the key to Africa's economic recovery in post COVID-19. Read more »

Ghana: Pig-Processing, Fertiliser Factories At Asankare

A pig-processing factory with the capacity to slaughter and process 1,000 pigs per day is scheduled to commence operations by the end of November this year. Read more »

Ghana: 2020/2021 Cocoa Crop Season Begins Today

The Ghana Cocoa Board has announced the commencement of the 2020/2021 main crop season effective today, Friday, October 2, 2020. Read more »

Ghana: CPC Opens Kasoa Depot

The Cocoa Processing Company Limited (CPC) on Tuesday opened a new depot in Kasoa to facilitate access of their GoldenTree products in the area. Read more »

Ghana: Tono Irrigation to Be Ready 2021

Government has given the assurance that the Tono Irrigation Project in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region would be completed by April 2021. Read more »

Ghana: Coobod Seals U.S.$1.3 Billion Loan Deal ... for Purchase of 900,000 Mt of Cocoa in 2020/2021 Crop Season

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has sealed a syndicated loan deal of $1.3 billion with 28 international banks, including four local banks, for the purchase of cocoa in the… Read more »

Ghana: LiPF to Promote Livestock, Poultry Sectors

The 2020 edition of the Livestock, Poultry and Fisheries Training Tradeshow (LiPF) has been slated for September 25 to 26, 2020. Read more »

Ghana: Mahama - Next NDC Administration Will Establish Agriculture Mechanised Centres

Former President John Dramani Mahama has promised that a future National Democratic Congress (NDC) government will establish Agricultural Mechanisation Centres in every district… Read more »

Ghana: Insurance for Cocoa Farmers - An Idea Whose Time Has Come

My father was a cocoa farmer all his life. He helped his father grow cocoa and then, when he became a man, he grew his own. I helped him do that, as a child. Read more »

Ghana: Ghana Cocoa Awards Launched

The second edition of Ghana Cocoa Awards has been scheduled to be held in Accra on Saturday, November 14, 2020. Read more »

Ghana: Stop 'Galamsey' Threat to Cocoa Sector

Cocoa is the backbone of Ghana's economy, generating about $2 billion in foreign exchange annually. The crop is a major contributor to the country's Gross Domestic Product (GPD). Read more »