According to Ghana’s Medium Term Agricultural Sector Investment Programme (METASIP), 2011 to 2015 (and updated plan 2016-2020) the Government of Ghana is aiming to generate three billion euros from the export of non-traditional products by 2017. There is also increasing demand for non-traditional commodities-fruits and vegetables from Ghana to the European Union (EU) and United States’ markets. These… Read more →
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Guinness Ghana Calls for Focus on Agribusiness for National Development
Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) has urged investors and technical experts to look to the agriculture sector for greater return on their investments in Ghana. The brewery giant made this call at the 5th Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Bootcamp held at the Kofi Annan ICT Center in Accra. The event, aimed at training entrepreneurs’ through critical thinking exercises and business framework modelling… Read more →
Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) to set up Farmers Service Centres in Ghana
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture, (MoFA) has initiated a programme to establish Service Centres for use by farmers nationwide. The multi-purpose centres when completed, will be a one-stop shop for the provision of services such, mechanization, fertilizer distribution, extension services, produce marketing and provision of credit facilities to farmers, among others. The sector minister, Mohammed Muniru Limuna, who disclosed… Read more →
Cocoa and cashew farmers get US$22m funding from Olam
Some farmers in Ghana have benefited from a $22 million interest-free short-term financing under the Olam Livelihood Charter (OLC) of global agri-business giant, Olam International. The OLC is Olam International’s flagship smallholder sustainability initiative, which caters for a total of 31,722 Ghanaian farmers in the cashew and cocoa sectors, cultivating a total of 73,968 hectors of land. Some 57% of… Read more →
5,000 metric tonnes of raw cashew nuts imported from Guinea Bissau
USIBRAS Ghana Limited, the biggest cashew processing company in West Africa, has appealed to government for better support to the country’s cashew processors as it is importing 5,000 metric tonnes of raw cashew nuts from Guinea Bissau due to the limited access to high quality raw cashew nuts in Ghana. The company said on July 5th 2016, it received the… Read more →
List of Deleted NHIS Registrants-GHANA
List of deleted National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) registrants on the electoral roll of Ghana. (PDF) Click to view and/or download (PDF) Read more →
Nestlé Central and West Africa launches new Nestlé in society report
It is the first report by Nestlé in the Central and West Africa Region (CWAR) that provides insight into the company’s progress in the areas of nutrition, water and environmental and social sustainability in the region. “We have been present in Central and West Africa for almost 60 years and remain committed to this region of limitless possibilities,” said Kais… Read more →
Parliament of Ghana Approves $2 billion Cocoa Syndicated Loan
Parliament has given the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) the green light to go for a 2 billion dollar syndicated loan to finance the purchase of cocoa beans for the 2016/17 crop season. However, payback of the loan hinges on the ability of COCOBOD to purchase 900,000 metric tonnes of cocoa within the period. Read more →
US$113m Agricultural Development Project Launched
A US$113million Ghana Agricultural Sector Investment Programme (GASIP) to promote and scale-up agricultural value chains in the country has been launched in Tamale. The six-year project funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) - a United Nations Specialised Agency - and implemented by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) is aimed at supporting infrastructure development, technology transfer,… Read more →
USAID Ghana helps Improve Integration of Youth in Agriculture in Ghana
In a quest to effectively improve youth development in Ghana,USAID (Feed the Future), through the Agricultural Policy Support Programme (APSP) has provided support to a Ghanaian Agricultural Research and geospatial mapping company, Syecomp Ghana Ltd, to implement an advocacy initiative on youth in Agriculture. The research and advocacy activity is geared towards having a dialogue, discussing, debating and contextualising issues with… Read more →