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Agricultural Issues Food and Agriculture in Ghana – a Sector in Difficulty For some time now, there has been an on-going debate about the performance of the food and agricultural sector in satisfying the nutritional and economic needs of the nation. One assessment suggests that the sector has performed creditably and what is required of […]

Agricultural Issues Moving Towards Food Security: YARA Leads the Way The pluralistic and diverse agriculture system in Ghana and the process of globalization has thrown up new challenges for farmers, government and the private sector. This calls for new thinking on the research, development and dissemination of new agricultural techniques. There is therefore an imminent […]

News Articles from the Daily Graphic Newspaper Cocoa Farmers Assured of Good Prices In delivering his first State of the Nation Address to the Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic in Accra, President John Dramani Mahama has assured cocoa farmers that his administration will continue to pay at least 70% of the world market price […]

News Articles from the Daily Graphic Newspaper FAGRO Seeks Partnership for Increased Food Production The National Food and Agricultural Show is looking to improve collaboration and partnership with smallholder farmers with the purpose of totally transforming the agricultural sector. This involves intensifying investments in the annual event with the support of government and other development […]

Agricultural News Ghana Reduces Hunger by 87% Myjoyonline.com Ghana has reduced by 87 per cent the number of people undernourished in the country over the past two decades due to improved investment in agriculture. This is in spite of the increasing population, changing weather patterns, inadequate lending and innovations that are threatening to squeeze the […]