Contract farming (CF) arrangements are written or oral agreements between farmers and CF scheme operators, where farmers commit to produce a certain commodity and operators commit to buying the commodity. These agreements typically contain further specifications such as the quantity, quality or price of the commodity, and can come with the provision of inputs, credits […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – September 15, 2016
Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Media Reports Cocoa Industry Gets $1m Interest-free Loan Olam Ghana Limited has given over 1,000 cocoa farmer $1million interest-free loans in addition to the GHS4million premium it paid them for the 2015/2016 cocoa season. Head of Business at Olam Ghana Limited, Eric Botwe revealed this at […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – January 4, 2016
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 – June 22, 2015
Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues Ghana Wins FAO Award for Reducing Hunger Ghana has received an award from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for reducing the number of undernourished people from more than seven million in the early 1990s to less than a million now. The country was […]
Ghana Agricultural News Digest – June 1, 2015
Below are some current developments on agriculture in Africa: Agricultural Issues Tree Global Distributes Cocoa Seedlings to Farmers Tree Global, a trade organization in agriculture and forestry, in collaboration with Mondalez International, a chocolate manufacturing company, has distributed 2,500 innovative cocoa seedlings to farmers at Bosuso to boost their production. As part of the distribution, […]
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