COCOBOD gives over 90,000 bags of fertilizers to farmers in Western North

Ghana News Agency - Jun 1, 2020 0

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) through the Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) has presented a total 99,468 bags of Cocoa fertilizers to be...

MoFA to facilitate access to plough services for women farmers

Ghana News Agency - May 30, 2020 0

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture ( MoFA) will ensure that women farmers in the Upper East Region have access to mechanization services to...

Community leaders engaged on COVID-19 at Yendi

Ghana News Agency - May 30, 2020 0

Selected religious and traditional leaders, heads of department, and farmers amongst other opinion leaders in the Yendi Municipality have attended an engagement meeting on...

Callighana donates PPE to Ministry of Agriculture

Ghana News Agency - May 29, 2020 0

Callighana Company Limited, a total agriculture solution company, on Friday donated Personal Protective Equipment worth GHC60,000.00 to the Ministry of...

Tanzania’s Zanzibar urges traders to stop buying cloves directly from farmers

xinhuanet.com - May 27, 2020 0

Tanzania's Zanzibar authorities on Tuesday warned traders against buying cloves directly from farmers. Said Seif Mzee, the Managing Director of the Zanzibar...

Twifo-Attimokwa Assembly supply 50,000 hybrid oil palm seedlings to farmers

Ghana News Agency - May 25, 2020 0

More than 50,000 hybrid oil palm seedlings have been distributed to hundreds of farmers in the Twifo-Attimorkwa District of the Central Region. The distribution...

Tanzania PM urges farmers to get ready for massive oil palm cultivation

xinhuanet.com - May 24, 2020 0

Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said on Saturday that the east African nation will start engaging in massive cultivation of oil palm from October...

Fairtrade introduces new cocoa and coffee certification to boost income of farmers

Ghana News Agency - May 22, 2020 0

In a move to deepen benefits for farmers, Fairtrade International has announced a new requirement for cooperatives and traders applying for cocoa or coffee...

Cargill leverages technology to improve transparency in the cocoa sector

Ghana News Agency - May 21, 2020 0

Cargill, a global cocoa giant, has reiterated its commitment to a transparent and sustainable cocoa sector, which improves the lives of farmers and their...

GASIP presents farm inputs and PPE to farmers at Yendi

Ghana News Agency - May 21, 2020 0

The Ghana Agriculture Sector Investment Programme (GASIP) has presented tricycles and personal protective equipment (PPE) to 30 farmers from Gukpegu and Kushegu in the...

Multi-purpose Pwalugu Dam: Govt promises compensation for farmers, home owners

Ike Dzokpo - May 19, 2020 0

Volta River Authority, VRA has disclosed that over 400 structures will be affected by the construction of the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam project in both...

MoFA supports poultry farmers under RfFJs-Minister

Ghana News Agency - May 15, 2020 0

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has registered 350 poultry farmers for the implementation of a special broiler pilot project under the Rearing...

Kenyan farmers sustain food supply amid COVID-19 pandemic, flood threats

xinhuanet.com - May 9, 2020 0

Resilient Kenyan farmers have shrugged off floods and locust threats to keep food supply steady in the east African nation amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

COVID-19 may affect rice production in Builsa

Ghana News Agency - May 7, 2020 0

Mr Sylvan Dauda Danaa, the Builsa South District Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) in the Upper East Region, has said...

Covid-19: COCOBOD strengthens farmers’ education

Ghana News Agency - May 4, 2020 0

The Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) of COCOBOD has embarked on a nationwide campaign to strengthen farmers’ education on the coronavirus (covid-19)...

MP supports farmers in Krachi East with agrochemicals

Ghana News Agency - May 4, 2020 0

Mr Michael Yaw Gyato, Member of Parliament (MP) for Krachi East Constituency in the Oti Region has distributed over 60,000 cartons of agrochemicals to...

Army Worms destroy maize farms in twelve communities in Assin South

Ghana News Agency - Apr 30, 2020 0

More than twelve farming communities in the Assin South District of the Central Region have reported of the re-emergence of the devastating Fall Army...

AGRA supports farmers to mitigate impact of COVID-19

Sammy Adjei - Apr 23, 2020 0

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has presented Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) worth GHC20,000 and seed money of GHC10,000 to the...

Farmers appeals to government to promote organic farming

Ike Dzokpo - Apr 22, 2020 0

The Nyamebekyere Co-operatives Vegetable Farming and Marketing Society Limited, a farmers-based organisation, has appealed to government to promote organic agriculture to guarantee quality public...

Farmers advised to increase their productivity

Ghana News Agency - Apr 16, 2020 0

Mr Kafui Safo, the Achiase District Director of Agriculture, has urged farmers to increase their productivity and produce more to help feed people in...

Photo taken on Feb. 4, 2020 shows a cloud of locusts flying in Mwingi North, Kenya. A number of East African countries are suffering serious locust infestation, with Kenya experiencing its worst in 70 years, which, if left unchecked, could grow 500 times in scale by June, a UN spokesman said Friday. Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary-general, said besides Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are undergoing their worst locust infestation in 25 years, and that Djibouti, Eritrea, Uganda and Tanzania are also experiencing swarm activity and locust breeding, while the risk of spread to South Sudan is high. (Xinhua/Fred Mutune)

East African farmers face new outbreak of locusts amid COVID-19 outbreak

xinhuanet.com - Apr 14, 2020 0

As the world battles COVID-19, farmers in East Africa are facing another devastating outbreak, swarms of desert locusts, says the International Committee of the...

More farmers in Birim Central Municipal benefit from PFJ

Ghana News Agency - Mar 23, 2020 0

The number of farmers who are benefiting from the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) in the Birim Central Municipality keep increasing over the...

Farmers appeal to government to complete Pai Katanga warehouse

Ghana News Agency - Mar 20, 2020 0

Farmers in Pai Katanga in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti Region have appealed to government to complete work on a warehouse project...

Farmers in Afram Plains to expand cassava and maize production

Ghana News Agency - Mar 19, 2020 0

Farmers in the Afram Plains have been urge to prepare raw materials to feed the proposed cassava factory and piggery being constructed under...

Poultry farmers cautioned on drug overdose of birds

Ghana News Agency - Mar 18, 2020 0

Dr. Joachim Darko, the Director of Veterinary Services Department for the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regions has cautioned poultry farmers to administer the...

South Sudan’s farmers pin hope on peace to restore shattered livelihoods

xinhuanet.com - Mar 10, 2020 0

For over 40 years, Gabriel Dete survived on farming to feed his extended family until all came to an abrupt end four years ago...

CSIR-SARI sensitises staff on PAIRED project

Ghana News Agency - Mar 9, 2020 0

Staff of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI) have been educated on the activities and implementation plan...

Cocobod to support farmers fight soil acidity

Ghana News Agency - Mar 4, 2020 0

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) and Beft Agro Consult Limited, distributor of fertilisers in Ghana, have renewed their partnership to provide Cocoa Farmers...

Provide more rapid aflatoxin test kits – GSA

Ghana News Agency - Mar 4, 2020 0

The government has been urged to take decisive steps to tackle the increasing threat to public health by the high levels of aflatoxins in...

GSA encourages use of ‘Aflasafe’ by farmers to reduce aflatoxins

Ghana News Agency - Mar 4, 2020 0

The Ghana Standard Authority (GSA) is encouraging the use of ‘Aflasafe’ – an all-natural agro-product by local farmers to help drastically reduce aflatoxins in...

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