Agricultural Issues
Food security project trains 8500 farmers in improved crop production
GhanaWeb
Tamale, Feb. 23, GNA - The Northern Ghana Food Security Resilience Project (NGFSRP) has trained over 8,500 farmers in the Northern and Upper West Regions on improved crop production practices, group formation and the value added chain in food production. It also trained 7,066 farmers in harvesting and post harvest handling technologies to enable them to produce more food, store and sell the surplu= s later to generate income for their households.
Government to launch "White Gold" campaign to revamp cotton
Ghana News Agency
Government would launch a program to revive the cotton industry next month dubbed: "White Gold" campaign at the cotton producing zones.
A statement signed by Nana Akrasi Sarpong, Acting Director of Communications and Public Affairs of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, said the campaign was aimed at encouraging farmers in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions to grow cotton in the 2011 farming season.
Poor road network is the source of poverty in the North
Ghana News Agency
The President of the Ghana National Seed Producers Association, Mr. Osafo Patrick Apullah, has said that about 80 per cent of poverty in the north would have been reduced if the roads in the north were good.
He said modernization of agriculture would not yield the needed results if food produced in rural communities were left to rot due to poor roads.
Gov't To Establish A Fishery College - Mills
Peace FM Online
Under the ‘Better Ghana Agenda’ in developing the human resource base of the fishery sector, President John Evans Atta Mills, yesterday announced that the Ministry of Agriculture is collaborating with the University of Cape Coast to establish a Fisheries College at Anomabo in the Central Region.
Local Government/Decentralization
Towards a broken and dysfunctional decentralization:
GhanaWeb
That Ghana’s decentralization program is not working effectively is never a far cry from reality. The decentralization program which began in 1988 had an objective of promoting effective and accountable local government in the country with the ultimate goal of clamping down on poverty. Rather the significance of decentralization has been stultifying. Lives in rural areas and even urban community have increasingly been subjected to a quagmire of crushing poverty while the few so-called elites – stuck in intellectual conservatism – amass wealth to themselves.