Category: Agribusiness
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Women shea butter processors in West Mamprusi cry for buyers
Shea butter processors at Loagri No. 2, near Walewale in the West Mamprusi District of the North East Region, are appealing to dealers in the sector to purchase their butter to keep them in business. The over 50 women, who have formed an Association, made the appeal when Citi Business News visited the area recently…
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Citi FM adjudged outstanding Agribusiness radio station in Ghana
Citi FM has been adjudged outstanding Agribusiness radio station at the Ghana Excellence Agribusiness Awards for the year 2019. Chief Executive Officer for the Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana, the organization that held the award, Anthony Selorm K. Morrison, said the station was recognized for its efforts at promoting the growth and development of Agribusiness in…
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Bush fires ravage rice farms in northern regions
Some rice farmers in Northern parts of the country are counting their losses as bush fire ravages hundreds of their rice farms. The Upper East, Northern and North East Regions, are the worst-hit regions as affected farmers attributed the situation to lack of combine harvesters and a ready market for their produce. The farmers who…
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Construction of livestock market commences in Gushegu
The Ghana Developing Communities Association (GDCA) in partnership with Gushegu Municipal Assembly, has cut the sod for the construction of a modern livestock market with auxiliary facilities in Gushegu in the Northern region. It is being executed through GDCA Community Life Improvement Programme with funding support from the Acting for Life. The market project, which…
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Tuobodom tomato farmers cry over low sales due to importation from Burkina Faso
The continuous importation of millions of dollars’ worth of fresh tomatoes from neighbouring Burkina Faso into Ghana, is taking a huge toll on tomato farmers in the country. The Federation of Tomato Growers Association at Tuobodom in the Techiman North Municipality of the Bono East Region, which produces a chunk of tomatoes, says its members…
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EXIM Bank commits to investing in greenhouse technology to reduce tomato, onion imports
The Ghana Exim Bank is seeking to reduce Ghana’s US$100 million and US$60 million imports of tomatoes and onions in the lean season with the introduction of greenhouse technology. According to the CEO of the Bank, Lawrence Agyinsam, the move should also help address the perennial depreciation of the cedi. He was speaking at the…
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Living Income Differential is being applied without any issues – COCOBOD PRO
The Public Affairs Manager of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) Fiifi Boafo, has downplayed reports that chocolate makers around the world are finding ways of offsetting the cost imposed by the recently introduced living income differential (LID) on cocoa sales for the 2020/21 season. The 400 dollar-per-tonne ‘living income differential‘ was introduced in July of…
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Project to fill gaps within the fishery sector launched
Fishing is a major sector of Ghana’s economy. It currently accounts for 1.2 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and provides employment for an estimated 2.5 million people. However, the sector is faced with a number of challenges that threatens the livelihoods of its dependants. To enhance the socio-economic livelihoods of fishing communities within some…
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Akufo-Addo inaugurates 1D1F tomato factory at Shai Osudoku
President Nana Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, 19th December 2019, commissioned the Leefound Food Stuff (GH) Ltd., a tomato processing factory operating under Government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative. The factory, located at Doryumu in the Shai Osudoku constituency, has been established by two Chinese Companies, Tianjin Limmin Condiments Co. Ltd. and Grand Rise Food Co. (GH) Ltd., to produce…
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Advans Ghana donates to MoFA and National Best Cocoa Farmer
On the 6th of December 2019, Advans Ghana Savings and Loans joined scores of institutions to participate in the grand durbar for the 35th National Farmers’Day celebration themed: “Enhancing Small Scale Agriculture Towards Agribusiness Development”. During the durbar, a team from Advans Ghana Savings and Loans led by the Head of Partnerships Development, Alhassan Salley,…