Category: Agriculture
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Fix bad roads in farming areas to curb post-harvest losses – Esoko urges Gov’t
Commodity price survey Service Company, Esoko Ghana, has reiterated the need for government to be deliberate about fixing roads leading to food producing areas of the country. The Content Manager at Esoko Ghana, who made the call, told Citi Business News many deplorable roads in farming areas of the country contribute to the worsening post-harvest…
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1 village, 1 dam projects on course to meet timelines – Agric Ministry
Minister of State at the Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Nurah Gyeile says it will be difficult to announce a completion date for the government’s one village one dam policy. He explains that this is due to the different dates the contracts were awarded and some technical issues faced in certain areas. So far, 88 of…
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Esoko urges gov’t to speed up warehousing project to tackle post-harvest losses
A Commodity price survey service company, Esoko Ghana, has asked government to speed up its construction of warehouses to prevent post-harvest losses as the harvest season for farmers inches closer. Government in 2018 launched the one district, one warehouse project, to provide storage for farm produce. For many years, post-harvest losses have become a common…
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Poultry farmers hopeful of a boost in production with adb credit facility
The Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association says it is optimistic that the Agricultural Development Bank’s credit facility to the poultry industry will go a long way to boost local poultry production and subsequently reduce importation. Adb has announced a 500 million cedis loan facility to boost the operations of poultry farmers in the country. The…
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Group urges Gov’t to implement ECOWAS Veterinary Pharmaceutical Protocol in livestock sector
The Women in Poultry Value Chain (WIPVaC), has called for the speedy implementation of the Economic Community of West African States’ Veterinary Pharmacy Protocol in Ghana. The group, which is an umbrella organization of women in the poultry value chain, believes that supporting the implementation of the ECOWAS Veterinary Pharmaceutical Protocol will allow Ghana’s livestock…
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GEPA to increase coconut export to boost earnings and create jobs
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), says it will increase export of coconut to improve revenue for non- traditional export. Already, GEPA has supplied 160,000 coconut seedlings to Coconut Farmers in the country to increase coconut production within the next five years. Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority, Afua Asabea Asare, in…
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Partial lock-down takes April inflation to 10.6 percent as food prices shot up
New data released by the Ghana Statistical Service shows that prices of foodstuff went up during the three-week partial lock-down in April, which was implemented as a measure to curtail the spread of COVID-19. The food component of the country’s inflation for April increased by 8 percent more than the non-food component, pushing the rate…
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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 illegal miners whose activities are destroying acres of cocoa farms. While on a tour to inspect an ongoing Mass Pruning exercise in some parts of the Eastern Region, the officials came across cocoa farms that had been…
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Poultry farmers appeal for Gov’t support to boost local production
Local poultry farmers have called for concrete interventions from government to strengthen the industry. Ghana spends over 350 million dollars annually to import poultry products. Government has indicated its commitment to increase local production and eventually ban importation by the year 2023. The President of the Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association, Michael Nyarko-Ampem, in a…
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No price drop expected yet for cocoa farmers due to COVID-19 – COCOBOD
The Ghana COCOBOD has downplayed suggestions that the producer price of cocoa may fall due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. COCOBOD in 2019 increased the producer price of the beans from GH¢7,640 to GH¢8,240 per tonne. With the global fight against COVID-19, most international trading commodities have seen plummeting prices with cocoa also being…