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Bolgatanga, Ghana – Government has presented some vehicles to boost the implementation of the ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ programme in the Upper East Region. The 13 pickup vehicles will be sent to the districts and municipalities in the region to facilitate the implementation of the agricultural programme initiated by …

Bolgatanga, Ghana – Upper East Regional Director of the Ministry of Food & Agriculture (MoFA), Francis Ennor, has urged farmers to take advantage of the ‘planting for food & jobs’ programme to improve their yields. According to Mr Ennor, the various district offices of the Ministry of Food & Agriculture …

Gushegu, Ghana – The lives of over 12,000 men and women from the Gushegu Municipality and Karaga District in the Northern Region of Ghana, are remarkably being transformed through World Vision’s Savings for Transformation (S4T) component of its Household Food Security and Resilience project. In the Gushegu area, 8,279 men …

Gushegu, Ghana – About 3,000 farmers and their families from three communities of the Gushegu District in the Northern Region of Ghana are to benefit from a dry season gardening initiative under the Food Security and Resilience project implemented by World Vision. The dry season gardening initiative would directly engage …

Nyankpala, Ghana – Farmers in Northern Ghana are now embracing a newly-improved variety of cowpea known as Songotra (IT97K-499-35). This is because a genetic modification for in-built resistance has been introduced into the crop, thus, farmers would no longer lose between 20 and 80 per cent of their crop yield …

Bole, Ghana – District Chief Executive for Bole, Veronica Alele Heming, says she is upbeat about the prospects of a booming cashew industry in the coming years. According to her, the Bole District is largely suitable for the establishment of large acreages of cashew plantations, and urged the youth and …

Accra, Ghana – Approximately, 1,339 illegal miners have been arrested at different mining sites across the country by the ‘Operation Vanguard’ team since government placed a ban on illegal mining also known as ‘Galamsey’. The leader of the ‘Operation Vanguard’ team, Ken Amoah Ayisi, who made the disclosure, stated that …

Accra, Ghana – An Emergency Physician/Sonologist at the Sinel Specialist Hospital in Tema, Dr Boanerges Kwashie Nkosana Nartey, has advised against the consumption of Genetically Modified (GM) food products as they have the potential to cause cancers. The medical practitioner said nearly 40 per cent of diet causes cancers, and …

Accra, Ghana – Ghana has, since 1985, not had a National Agricultural Census data, Dr Sagre Bambangi, Deputy Minister of Agriculture in charge of Annual Crops, has revealed. He said the lack of adequate data in the sector has resulted in poor policy formulation because there was no reliable data …

Tamale, Ghana – Regional Advisory Information and Network Systems (RAINS), a Tamale-based non-profit nongovernmental organisation in partnership with African Biodiversity Network (ABN), has embarked on an initiative aimed at saving indigenous seeds from extinction. Dubbed: “Seed Mapping Exercise”, the initiative is an activity under the Zero Hunger project seeking to …