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Agricultural News Ghana Needs $157M to Develop Tree Crop Sector Ghanaian Chronicle The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Mr. Kwesi Ahwoi, has announced that Ghana needs $157 million to develop the country’s tree crop sector in the next five years. To this end, a strategic tree crops policy has been developed to help the country […]

Agricultural News Ghana COCOBOD to Supply 20 Million Cocoa Seedlings to Farmers Ghana The Ghana COCOBOD is to supply 20 million hybrid cocoa seedlings free of charge to cocoa farmers this year, Reverend Abaka Ewusi, Executive Director, Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD) Control Unit (CU) Operations, has disclosed. He said the seedling would be […]

Agricultural News Ghana Must Adopt New Approach to Agriculture and Agro-Business Myjoyonline.com Government has been challenged to adopt new approaches to agriculture if the sector is to be sustained and maintained as the backbone of the country’s economy. The Chief Executive Officer of B-Bovid, an agro-business company in the Ahanta West District of the Western […]

Agricultural News Ghana's 2011 Non-Traditional Exports hit $2.4 billion The Africa Report In 2010 the country recorded about $1.629 billion recorded in the NTEs. Earnings from agriculture, processed and semi-processed products as well as handicrafts contributed to the growth. Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Exports Promotion Authority (GEPA), Dr Kwadwo Owusu Agyeman, said an […]

Agricultural News Government To Subsidize Fertilizer Ghana The Government of Ghana has targeted to subsidize 176,000 metric tonnes of granular and liquid fertilizer at a cost of GH¢120.3 million and 151,000 metric tonnes of certified seeds at the cost of GH¢4.8 million, all totaling GH¢124.1 million. Consequently, it has, through the Ministry of Food and […]