Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues: Top-performing Cocoa Rallies 10.9% in 2015 on Poor Ghana Crop Cocoa prices surged for a fourth straight year in 2015, closing the year up 10.9 percent at $3,207 per tonne to outperform all other commodities as a poor crop in No. 2 producer Ghana […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – December 29, 2015
Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues: 10,000 Cocoa Farmers Paid Through Mobile Banking One of the world’s leading chocolate and cocoa products manufacturer, Barry Callebaut, has succeeded in subscribing 10,000 cocoa farmers on its mobile banking programme, it has announced in a statement. The chocolate firm said a few days […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – December 7, 2015
Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues: Ibrahim Musah is 2015 Best Farmer Mr Ibrahim Musah, a 48-year-old farmer from Dormaa in the Brong Ahafo Region is the 2015 National Best Farmer. For his prize he received a three-bedroom house, GH¢3,000 from Kasapreko Distilleries, a desk top computer with printer, a […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – November 30, 2015
Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues: Ghana’s Position in the Cocoa World Enhanced by Olam’s Acquisition of ADM Olam International, one of Ghana’s largest agri-commodity companies, has completed its acquisition of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Company’s worldwide cocoa business. All former ADM employees in Ghana, including the major processing plant […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – November 23, 2015
Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues AfDB Plans US$3bn Facility to Improve Food Nutrition The African Development Bank (AfDB) has taken a giant step toward improved food nutrition and security with plans to develop a US$300million facility that will leverage about US$3billion from banks and microfinance institutions across the continent […]
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