Agricultural Issues Mobile Phones Link Ghana Cocoa Farmers Australian Food The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), The Hershey Company, and the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) have announced a first-of-its kind program to use mobile technology to deliver practical information on agricultural and social programs to rural cocoa farmers, and enable the farmers to ask questions and […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – March 11
Agricultural Issues Food Facility Program to Increase Millet and Sorghum Production A day's workshop has been held in Bolgatanga to empower stakeholders, especially farmers, to grow sorghum and millet on large scale under the Food Facility Project funded by the European Union and International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD). The project is to empower rural […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – March 4
Agricultural Issues Tomato Factory Starts Production Ghana News Agency The Northern Star Tomato Factory (NSTF) has started buying tomatoes from local farmers in the Upper East Region.Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, to find out how MOTI was facilitating the tomato industry in the Upper East Region, Mr Joshua Azure, Regional officer […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – February 25
Agricultural Issues Food security project trains 8500 farmers in improved crop production GhanaWeb Tamale, Feb. 23, GNA - The Northern Ghana Food Security Resilience Project (NGFSRP) has trained over 8,500 farmers in the Northern and Upper West Regions on improved crop production practices, group formation and the value added chain in food production. It also […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – February 18
Agricultural Issues Contributions of Fairtrade to the cocoa industry in Ghana GhanaWeb A report published by Reuters Television revealed Ghana produces 14% of the total production of the world's cocoa. In spite of this glowing achievement cocoa farmers receive a very little percentage of the revenue generated by chocolate manufacturing companies across the globe through […]