One of our key partner institutions, Syecomp Ghana Ltd, is ready to deploy Unmanned Aerial Vehicles-UAV (Drone) Technology with multispectral sensors and 4K HDR for crop monitoring, field scouting, forest cover monitoring, and inventory works! More experimentation and precision agriculture in the offing! Interested in a project collaboration in Agriculture using drones? Send them a mail: Projects@syecomp.com Read more →
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: Development Of Improved Rainfed Agriculture Based On Bunding And Land Development For Rice Production In The Nasia-Nabogo Inland Valley Introduction The project identified 10,000ha of land best suited to the development of improved rainfed agriculture and is currently developing 3,000ha based on bunding and quality land development for rice production in the inland valleys. The… Read more →
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, gave his first State of the Nation Address on February 21, 2017, six weeks after he was sworn into office as the 5th President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana. Full text of the address in pdf format. [190KB] Read more →
MARKET STUDY TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR) DATE: 09/01/17 Project background/rationale The Ghana Poultry Project (GPP) is a five-year initiative funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food for Progress Program (FFPr) and implemented by ACDI/VOCA and TechnoServe with the goal to increase the competitiveness of the domestic production and processing of poultry meat and eggs. GPP works in… Read more →
SCOPE OF WORK (SOW) CONSULTANCY SERVICE ON CERTIFICATION OF HATCHERRIES BUSINESS IN GHANA TO ENSURE QUALITY DAY OLD CHICKS (DOCs) PRODUCTION DATE: 09/01/17 Project background/rationale The Ghana Poultry Project (GPP) is a five-year initiative funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food for Progress Program (FFPr) and implemented by ACDI/VOCA and TechnoServe with the goal to increase the… Read more →
JOB OPPORTUNITY with INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION (IPA) SENIOR POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION ASSOCIATE, AGRICULTURE IPA Ghana seeks a Senior Policy and Implementation Associate who will manage policy work and support implementation activities on a portfolio of agriculture projects, including, but not limited to, the Disseminating Innovative Resources and Technologies to Smallholders (DIRTS) project. Lead principal investigators on these studies include… Read more →
Two well-known Ghanaian ICT for Agriculture companies, Syecomp Ghana Ltd and Farmerline Ltd, are set to fully deploy Unamanned Aerial Vehicles-UAVs ( popularly known as drones) to improve the agricultural sector in Ghana. This was made known to AgricInGhana.com via Twitter feed. The initiative is supported through financial and technical support from the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Co-operation… Read more →
Ghana Census of Agriculture (GCA) Ghana Statistical Service Ministry of Food and Agriculture Job Opportunity: Data Collection Assistants The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) is in the process of conducting the Ghana Census of Agriculture (GCA) 2016-2019 The Census of Agriculture is a statistical operation that covers the country and allows… Read more →
In a recent meeting at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Ghana, we were presented with the designated Minister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto’s plans for what the new government is going to offer its farmers: Planting for Food and Jobs, a Campaign for Rapid Growth. The plan makes grand claims to promote growth in food production and create 750,000… Read more →