Tag: Agriculture
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AMG offers support to farmers to boost food security amid COVID-19
Agricultural Manufacturing Group Limited (AMG), a leading indigenous producer and distributor of advanced crop nutrition performance fertilizers in Ghana, has commenced a project aimed at boosting food production in the country and to empower small- and large-scale farmers. According to the company, the project is part of efforts to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on…
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Long-term plan required to protect farmers from shocks after COVID-19 – Peasant Farmers Assoc.
The Ghana Peasant Farmers Association, has advised government to have a long-term plan to cushion farmers against unforeseen circumstances and pandemics like COVID-19. The Association says the outbreak of COVID-19 should serve as a guide to protect farmers against natural occurrences that may affect food production and threaten food security. Following the outbreak of the…
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Build capacity for local rice production to avoid shortage amid COVID-19 – Rice farmer urges Gov’t
Ghana risks a shortage of some agric produce particularly rice by the latter part of this year and into 2021, if government fails to build the capacity of players in the local rice value chain to boost production. That’s according to the Executive Director of Western Deedew Group Limited, a local rice production company in…
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Farmers could slow production as demand reduces in lock-down areas – GAWU warns
In spite of measures taken by government to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, including a partial lock-down in parts of the country, the movement of foodstuff into such locked-down areas is allowed. This is because food vendors are exempted from the exercise, thereby allowing markets to operate. But the General Secretary of the…
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Youth in agribusiness: RMG Ghana’s reality show on farming to whip up interest
As part of efforts to encourage Ghana’s youth, especially graduates to take agriculture seriously, RMG Ghana, one of Ghana’s leading supplier of agro inputs to the Ghanaian economy, is set to launch a reality show on farming. The show, which will be aired on Ghana’s fastest growing television network, Citi TV, will provide an opportunity…
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Citi FM/Citi TV launches ‘Operation Feed Yourself’ project to whip up interest in farming
As part of activities marking the 15th anniversary of the establishment of one of Ghana’s leading English radio brands, Citi FM, Managing Director of the company, Samuel Attah-Mensah, has announced a new project to get Ghanaians to take up subsistence farming, and also consider it as a viable business that can empower them economically. The…
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Farmers urged to consider Arabian Peninsula nations as export destinations
Farmers and other stakeholders in the agricultural value chain in Ghana and other African countries have been urged to pay better attention to countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) such as Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Kuwait among others, as export destinations. Currently, Ghana’s top export destinations are India, China, Switzerland, Netherlands and South Africa.…
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Agric sector’s performamce in Q1 worrying — Prof. Quartey
Economist with the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Professor Peter Quartey, has urged the government to pay more attention to the policies it has adopted for the country’s agricultural sector following a dip in the sector’s contribution to the country’s GDP figures for the first quarter of the year. The Gross Domestic…
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Agric’s contribution to GDP records eighth decline in a row
Despite plans by the current administration to revamp the agricultural sector and make it the leader of Ghana’s economy, the sector has rather seen a decline in its contribution to GDP for yet another time. At least this is according to the 2017 figures released by the Ghana Statistical Service. The percentage of its contribution…
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Sam Jonah bemoans adb’s support to agriculture
The Executive Chairman of Jonah Capital, Sam Jonah, has lamented over what he describes as the Agricultural Development Bank(ADB’s) shift in focus in supporting Ghana’s agricultural sector. The business mogul argued that the bank’s approach has partly accounted for the decline growth in the agric sector and its ability to employ more people. Mr. Jonah is highly…