National Trends
Govt Gives US$50 million for ‘Planting for Food & Jobs’ Project – MoFA
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture, in 2017 revealed that government was investing some US$5million into the country’s buffer stock...
Yam Business in Ashaiman Faces Imminent Collapse
Yam business in the Ashaiman Municipality faces imminent collapse due to poor storage facilities resulting in the rotting of large...
Rice Farmers Unable to Get Buyers
Thousands of bags of rice harvested during the last farming season in the Northern Region have remained in the warehouses...
Prices of Tomatoes Likely to Increase Over Burkina Faso Border Closure – Dumelo Predicts
Burkina Faso under siege by coup plotters Ghanaian traders buy large quantities of tomatoes from Burkina Faso We can grow...
Youth Want to Engage in Farming, Create Enabling Environment for Them – Government Told
The 2021 Best Eastern Regional Crop Farmer, Michael Baah, has called on the government to create enabling environment that will...
Bird Flu Strikes Poultry Farms in Bediako
Another strain of the Avian Influenza has hit some farms in Bediako, a community in the Nmlitsakpo Electoral area in...
Light Fishing Affecting Livelihoods of Fishermen
Light fishing heavily impacts fisherfolk as fish stocks decline Plastics affecting Ghana’s fishing industry Ghana records low fish stock Fishermen...
Benchmark Policy puts 100,000 Jobs at Risk in Rice Industry – Farmers Warn
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) and the Rice Millers Association of Ghana...
Cocoa Farmers Sensitized on COCOBOD’s Flagship Programme at Nkonya Wurupong
Cocoa farmers in Nkonya in the Hohoe-Kpeve District of the Volta Region have on 21st January 2022 been sensitised on...
Farmer-based Organisations Call for Restoration of Benchmark Value Reversal Policy
Three farmer-based organisations have expressed disappointment at the government’s decision to suspend indefinitely the implementation of the benchmark value reversal...