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Agricultural Issues Fievie Rice Project Targets 1500mt of Rice Modern Ghana The Fievie Rice Project in the South Tongu District in the Volta Region is set to harvest 1,500 tones of high grade rice by the end of July, this year, for the local market. The farm is also on course to produce some 20,000 […]

Agricultural Issues Parliament Adopts Report on Poverty Reduction Strategy GhanaWeb Parliament on Tuesday adopted a report of the Committee on Poverty Reduction Strategy on the Coordinated Programme of Economic and Social Development Policies for 2010-2016. Dubbed "An Agenda For Shared Growth and Accelerated Development for a Better Ghana", it outlines the various policy measures the […]

Agricultural Issues Peasant Farmers Unhappy Over Budgetary Allocation Ghana News Agency Peasant farmers from eight districts in the Volta Region have expressed their anger at their district assembly at a workshop that was organized by the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG). The farmers stated that officials from the district and municipal offices of the […]

Agricultural Issues New Holland Delivers Fleet of 125 Tractors to Ghana's Ministry of Food and Agriculture Marketwire (press release) Ghana's Ministry of Food and Agriculture Takes Delivery of a Fleet of 125 New Holland Tractors as Part of a National Program to Support the Development of Small Farm Agriculture. New Holland Agriculture delivers this week […]

Agricultural Issues Kufuor Tells His Story on Ghana's Agriculture Sector Ghana Business News Ghana’s former President, Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor has given his personal account on how he felt and what he did about the country’s agriculture sector when he was President. President Kufuor writes in a book titled “Ghana’s Transformation” that about 60% of […]