The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will on Friday 25th August, 2017 at 1pm launch his government’s flagship policy popularly termed ”One District One Factory” at Ekumfi in the Central Region. The program will be the formal launch of the implementation of the One District One Factory policy in fulfillment of a pledge by President Akufo-Addo to see the actualization… Read more →
Value Added Agriculture/Aquaculture Expo-West Africa, a unique conference and exhibition “promoting value added agriculture and the production thereof” is scheduled for the 2nd to 4th November, 2017 at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC). During a Press and Client briefing today at La Palm Royal Beach Hotel, Adele Eloff, General Manager Africa of Reed Exhibitions, categorically stated that the Expo… Read more →
Press Release 25 July 2017 4th agrofood & plastprintpack West Africa on 05 – 07 December 2017 in Accra Great chances for producers of process & packaging technology Official country pavilions from Algeria, Belarus, France and the Netherlands confirmed (Heidelberg / Accra) The German trade fair specialists fairtrade announce the 4th edition of agrofood & plastprintpack West Africa to take… Read more →
The fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is now established and rapidly spreading throughout Africa. Thousands of small farmers will be caught off guard. They are not used to spraying insecticides to get a crop of maize. We know from experience that by the time one can identify a fall armyworm caterpillar, it is often too late to control it. The worms… Read more →
The Chief and Elders of Teselima ( located in the Bole Bamboi District) and the entire community held a community stakeholders’ meeting on August 11, 2017 on the protection and preservation of the community’s environment by stopping logging and charcoal burning in the area. Back in 2014 when I was enstooled as the chief of the community, the first… Read more →
CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) PRODUCTION OF 3D ANIMATION VIDEO “COCOA PRODUCTION” Project Background: The federally owned German International Cooperation (GIZ) is commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ) to implement the Sustainable Smallholder Agri-Business Programme (SSAB) . The objective is to help 404,600 West and Central African smallholders mainly in cocoa production… Read more →
August 15, 2017 USAID Encourages Evidence-based Policy to Boost Agricultural Productivity Accra, GHANA– The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future Initiative hosted a summit on agriculture policy to share research on evidence-based policy recommendations with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, other government agencies, development partners,research institutions, and the private sector on… Read more →
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The Plant Science Industry is committed to promoting practices that encourage responsible, safe and efficient use of agrochemical products but also at the same time, committed to sensitizing stakeholders on issues of counterfeiting and faking of agrochemicals which has plagued the industry and needs to be nipped through various strategies. One of which is to sensitize officers manning border posts… Read more →