Agricultural News
Ghana to Get 52% Share in $1.3b India Fertilizer Project
Ghana Business News
A $1.3 billion fertilizer project would soon be established at Nyankrom, a village in the Shama District of the Western region. The Ghana-Indian Joint Venture, which is expected to boost agriculture and help increase crop production in Ghana, is to be located on a serene grassy 400 acre land at the beach of Nyankrom and work is expected to start in one and half months. Madam Emelia Arthur, Deputy Western Regional Minister, said the Indian investors would have a 48 percent share while Ghana government has a share of 52 percent, out of which the landowners and some NGOs are partners. She said this on Thursday at Nyankrom when the investors held a meeting with the chiefs and people to interact on the progress of the project. [more]
MoFA Urged to Expedite Development and Regulations for Organic Farming
Ghana
Participants at an Organic Value Chain workshop have called on the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) to expedite work on the development regulations and standards for organic farming. They said recognizing the importance of promoting organic business and sustainable agricultural practices including setting appropriate standards for compost fertilizers would increase food safety and security. The workshop organized by the CHF International, Bio Ghana Network, Ministry of Trade and Industry and German Agency for International Development (GIZ) brought together stakeholders from research institutes, transporters, Non-Governmental Organizations, organic farmers, compost producers, agriculture extension agents and other certification bodies. The participants called on MoFA to ensure that its research into organic farming and related activities is deepened and expanded to help build the capacity of agencies providing technical support to the sub-sector. [more]
Reports
Trade Policies and Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Comparative Analysis in a Computable General Equilibrium Framework
PhD Dissertation, Sciences Po, 2012
This dissertation aims at contributing to the comparative analysis of trade and agricultural policies in Sub-Saharan Africa from a policy coherence for development point of view. The framework is established by reviewing the policies historically implemented in the region, linking them to the history of economic thought. The debates on the role of agriculture for development and on the use of public intervention and trade policies to promote development strategies are explored justifying the need to prioritize potential policy reforms based on their impacts on agriculture and economic growth, and the choice of computable general equilibrium modeling. [more]
Performance and Economic Evaluation of Pumped Irrigation System: A Case of Smallholder Horticultural Farmers
Biomechanical and Environmental Engineering Department, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya
The study was carried out with the objectives evaluating the technical performance of the pumps used in smallholder irrigated agriculture, studying the energy uses during pumping and identifying the possible causes of inefficient energy use, and evaluating the costs of pumping used during irrigation. Observational study to identify occurrence of pumped irrigation systems in Kakuzi Division in Thika and Yatta Division in Yatta District was done. The results imply that without proper selection of the irrigation equipments, poor designs as well as lack of operational and management skills, the farming enterprises can be rendered uneconomical. This calls for embracing of the engineering, agronomic as well as management techniques at farm level in order to ensure sustainability of irrigated agriculture as well as enhance its economic viability. [more]
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