Tag: Ministry of Food
MoFA Director encourages farmers to increase production
Mr Francis Ennor, the Upper East Regional Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has advised farmers in the region to farm...
Corn miller crwoned overall best farmer in Cape Coast Metropolis
A 52-year old Corn miller from Dahia has been crowned the overall best farmer in the Cape Coast Metropolis at the 33rd National Farmers...
Asante-Akim South Municipality reward 24 farmers
The Asante-Akim South Municipality has rewarded 24 farmers with prizes for hard work and singular contribution to the development of agriculture in the area.
This...
Scaling-up Evergreen Agriculture Project kicks off
A new Food Security and Climate Change Project, dubbed, “Scaling-up Evergreen Agriculture Project” is to kick start in the Bawku West, Garu and Mion...
Yara Ghana supports farmers day with fertilizer
Yara Ghana Limited has donated GHS 25,000.00 (Twenty Five Thousand Ghana Cedis) and one hundred bags of its premium YaraMila Actyva fertilizer to the...
Veterinary Services Promote Safe Handling Of Meat
Veterinary Services Department (VSD) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) has taken steps to promote safe handling of meat at the various...
Agriculture In Ghana Vulnerable To Climate Change
Mr Kingsley Kwako Amoako, Head of Environment and Climate Unit at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture has said Ghana needs to embrace global...
Fall Armyworm Destroy 6,000 Hectares Maize Farm In C/R
One thousand hectares of the 6,000 hectares maize farm in the Central Region had been completely destroyed by the fall armyworm.
Mr Richard Baffour Asare,...
European Commission Lift Ban On Plant Commodities
Ghanaian farmers can now resume export of all plant commodities to the European Union (EU) market from January 1st, 2018, following the European Commission’s...
Auctioneer Takes Commission For Not Working – PAC Reveals
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has indicted Alex Smart, an Auctioneer for receiving a commission of GHC 33,000 for virtually doing no...
Workers Urged To Embrace Govt’s Policy On Agric
Mr Augustine Saakuur-Karbo, the General Secretary of the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU), on Monday urged Public and Civil Servants to embrace government’s...
Residents of Goaso Welcome Planting For Food And Jobs Campaign
Residents of Goaso in the Asunafo North Municipality have expressed optimism that the "planting for food and jobs campaign" would create "realistic jobs" and...
Nana Addo Dwelling On Solid Economic Foundation Of Mahama – MP
Mr Eric Opoku, the immediate past Brong Ahafo Regional Minister has accused President Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration of denigrating the erstwhile John Mahama Administration on...
PFAG Commission Project To Ensure Market Access
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), has commissioned a project to ensure that farmers have access to quality inputs leading to high productivity...
Yara Ghana supports Farmers Day celebration
Mr Sergio Godoy, Managing Director of Yara Ghana, who made the presentation in the company of Head of Africa Unit of Yara, Benhard Fonseka,...
Youth asked to get back on track
The Minister who is also a member of the Ghana Writers Association asked Ghanaians to be proud of their country and urged all to...
Dizengoff Ghana and Obuoba Group supports farmers day
The companies are Dizengoff Ghana Limited and Obuoba Group of Companies.
Mrs Elaine Arthur, Public Relations Manager of Dizengof Ghana, presented one hector drip irrigation...
NADMO express unhappiness with perennial flooding
He attributed the flood to the poor drainage system, unplanned settlements as well as settlements around water bodies in the Municipality.
He expressed unhappiness that...
National Fertilizer workshop opens in Accra
Participants are also expected to come up with appropriate recommendations that would deal with fertilizer issues as well as inform policy.
The Ministry of Food...
NDC parliamentary aspirant promise to stand up for many
This he said would emanate from his mission to eradicate the barriers to socio-economic growth by standing up for the many and not the...
Coalition for African Rice Development scheduled to take place in Accra
The meeting is expected to attract more than 20 partner organisations/institutions, six non-sub-Saharan African countries as South-South Cooperation partners, four prominent private corporations, 23...
Stakeholders asked to aggressively market rice produced in Ghana
Mrs Dannson, who represented the Chief Director of the Ministry at the opening of the second Ghana National Rice Festival in Accra at the...
Rice farmers call for capital injection
Mr Maxwell Adu - Opoku, the coordinator in charge of the sustainable rain-fed rice production project in the Ashanti Region, speaking on behalf of...
National Farmers Day To Be Held In Bolgatanga
Mr Daniel Syme, Upper East Deputy Regional Minister, announced this at the official launch of the 31st edition of National Farmers Day in Bolgatanga...
Challenges in agriculture and food insecurity
The Ministry of the Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, has appealed to research institutions and scientists to come out with new varieties of tree...
ABL demonstrates its commitment to farmers
Ghana?s premier beverage manufacturer, Accra Brewery Limited (ABL), has joined the league of companies sponsoring the 2014 National Farmers Day event with a package...
Birim Central MOFA,s fertilizer depot hanging
The Birim Central Municipal Directorate of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) has appealed for support from investors to partner it to complete...
54 farmers equipped in grass cutter production
Mr. Joe Faalong, Upper West Regional Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, has appealed to the Japanese government to support the region...
Linking the protein needs of poor African farmers
Increasing yields of leguminous crops is a critical component of reducing issues of poverty in the rural communities, and increasing their income levels and...
WAAPP to benefit 41 farmers in Upper Manya
The West Africa Agriculture Productivity Programme (WAAPP) is to benefit 41 farmers in the Upper Manya Krobo District.
The initiative, in collaboration with the Ministry...