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Agricultural News Ghana Completes Agricultural Equipment Deal with Brazil Spyghana.com Brazil has approved Ghana’s request for the supply of equipment to mechanize the country’s agricultural sector. This follows a meeting in Brasilia between Vice President John Dramani Mahama and Mr. Pepe Vargas, Minister of Agrarian Development of Brazil. These were contained in a statement issued […]

Agricultural News  Ghana's Agriculture Sector Gets Another US$50 Million World Bank Boost Myjoyonline.com The Board of Directors of the World Bank today approved US$50 million to the Government of Ghana, in the form of budget support for the implementation of the country’s Medium Term Agriculture Sector Investment Plan, METASIP. The program, known as the Agricultural […]

Agricultural News Use of Quality Seed Among Farmers in UWR is very Low – SARI Vibe Ghana Dr. Saaka Buah, an Agronomist at the Wa Station of the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) has observed that the use of new improved quality seed among farmers in the Upper West Region is very low. Dr. Buah […]

Agricultural News WFP Presents Equipment to Ghanaian Smallholder Farmers Ghana Business News The World Food Program (WFP) has presented equipment and materials to 10 farmer groups under its Purchase for Progress (P4P) Initiative to help improve rice production in Northern Ghana. The equipment include: 10 rice reapers, 10 rice threshers and 524 tarpaulins. Thirty per […]

Agricultural News New Project to Invest US $12 Million to Boost Yam Productivity AllAfrica.com In one of the most ambitious efforts ever undertaken on behalf of an orphan crop like yam, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and a host of partners announced today a landmark new initiative to dramatically boost yam productivity and […]