Tag: agric
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Fishing industry triples agric growth in 1st quarter of 2017
Agric industry players are optimistic of a rebound in the growth of the sector for the rest of 2017. Their optimism is premised on the massive growth in agric subsector between the first quarter of 2016 and the same period in 2017. For the one year period, the agric sector growth almost tripled, from 2.8…
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Gov’t to turnaround agric sector with 125 million dollars
Government has secured 125 million Canadian dollars to support its initiative of increasing agricultural output and reduce food prices, President Akufo Addo has disclosed. The President who bemoaned the continuous decline of the agricultural sector also maintained that the development should increase food supplies and provide jobs. Nana Akufo Addo made the announcement in his…
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Cocoa sector target will be exceeded- Afriyie Akoto
The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto is confident his outfit will exceed the production target set by government for the cocoa sector for this year. According to him, government has begun strategizing to restore the cocoa sector into a high yielding state. “The fact that cocoa has been moved from the ministry of finance to…