Category: Agribusiness
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ADB encourages customers to update their records
The Agricultural Development Bank Limited (ADB) is encouraging customers to update their customer information details to ensure that all their details are accurately captured by the Bank. To ensure this , the Bank encouraging customers to visit the Bank’s website www.agricbank.com or any of the 83 branches nationwide to effect the update of their personal…
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1D1F: Ekumfi Juice, Casa De Ropa to pick up after COVID-19 slowed production
Mangers of two major factories under government’s One District One Factory initiative in the Central Region, Ekumfi Fruit and Juices Factory, and Casa de Ropa company, say although they have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, their production capacities have not been significantly reduced. The two firms, which have received credit facilities from the…
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COCOBOD to secure electronic weighing scales to stop LBCs from cheating farmers
The Ghana COCOBOD says it is importing electronic weighing scales for Cocoa License Buying companies to prevent the tampering of machines by Licensed Buying Companies to cheat cocoa farmers. The decision was arrived at after COCOBOD in collaboration with the Ghana Standards Authority followed up on a Joy News report on how some Licensed Buying…
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Jirapa Municipal Assembly distributes 100,000 cashew seedlings to women farmers
As part of measures to halt the persistent migration of women to southern Ghana in search of menial jobs, the Jirapa Municipal Assembly in the Upper West region has distributed 100,000 cashew seedlings to deprived women farmers in two communities. The distribution of the seedlings which is under the Ghana Productive Safety Net Programme is…
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‘Operation Feed Yourself’: Work progresses on Citi FM and Citi TV farm
As part of its commitment towards the ‘Operation Feed Yourself’ project, Citi FM and Citi TV have begun work on a 100-acre farmland in the Eastern Region. The initiative, which was launched last year, seeks to encourage people to consider agribusiness as a viable livelihood. Citi FM and Citi TV are known not only for…
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North East Region: Philanthropist supports farmers with grains to sustain them in lean season
It is that time of the year for farmers, the lean season; which is the period of planting and harvesting in parts of the country. That has ushered some vulnerable households into hunger and starvation in parts of the North East Region where families face a tough time meeting their daily food needs. Some are…
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Ghana Commodity Exchange to add local rice to listed items
The Ghana Commodity Exchange, which serves as a link between agricultural and commodity producers and buyers, will soon add locally produced rice to its listed items. This comes after the approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This will bring to five the number of items the Exchange trades in including maize, sorghum, soy…
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Hotels and restaurants urged to serve local poultry to boost industry
Some players in Ghana’s poultry industry have called on government to deliberately introduce policies that will boost the local consumption of poultry as the industry struggles with cheaper imported poultry. The local poultry industry, which suffers largely from minimal government support and excess importation, recently witnessed a jump in demand following limited importation caused by…
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Our buyers have reduced patronage due to COVID-19 – Ghana Commodity Exchange
The Ghana Commodity Exchange says due to the coronavirus pandemic, its buyers within the off-taking chain have reduced. The Exchange is a private-public partnership initiative that provides a regulated market linking buyers and sellers of commodities to trade. Already, the Exchange says the amount of produce it receives for the five listed items from mostly…
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Stakeholders call for inclusion of relevant groups in drafting agric sector policies
The under-performance of the agriculture sector in Sub-Saharan Africa has been attributed largely to the failures in agricultural policies, weak institutions, and poor governance. On the policy front, some stakeholders have bemoaned the lack of input from smallholder farmers and other relevant groups. To cure this, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), has launched…