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Agricultural News New Guaranteed Minimum Prices For Staples Ghana Local farmers will earn higher prices for maize and rice but lower price for soya beans in the 2013 farming season. According to the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) 100 kilogrammes of maize would sell at GH¢60 at the farm gates from the prevailing GH¢45, […]

Agricultural News UNDP-Ghana Pledges Support Towards Poverty Alleviation Myjoyonline.com The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has pledged continued support towards the government’s efforts at alleviating poverty in the country. The UN Development Assistance Framework action plan 2012 – 2016, launched earlier in the year, would invest $470m in resource contribution towards Ghana’s development agenda for […]

Agricultural News Foundation Assists Women in Agriculture Ghana A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that aims at empowering farmers in rural agriculture has been launched in Accra. Known as the Periyer Africa Foundation (PAF), the organization, which has its headquarters in India, seeks to invest mainly in women engaged in subsistence farming and reduce poverty through strategic […]

Agricultural News Burkina Faso Provides a Valuable Lesson for Boosting Agriculture in the North – Bawumia Myjoyonline.com Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the 2012 vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, has noted that it would be important for Ghana to learn significant lessons from neighboring Burkina Faso on transforming and boosting our agriculture, particularly in […]

Agricultural News Nigeria, Ghana Set to Establish Regional Agricultural Union Leadership Newspapers The Agriculture and Allied Employees Union of Nigeria (AAEUN) and the General Agricultural Workers Union of Ghana on Friday announced a joint commitment to establish a West African Agricultural Union.  Representatives of the unions told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos […]