Agric

Piina, Ghana – Traditional authorities in the Lambussie District of the Upper West Region are working closely with landlords and persuading husbands to release productive lands for women farmers in various communities of the District. The collaborative efforts with the landowners seek to help women who are into farming to …

Takoradi, Ghana – As part of efforts to stimulate community and institutional ownership of the sustained campaign against galamsey, The Media Coalition Against Galamsey (MCAG) with support from Star Ghana continues its community engagement with focus on the Western Region after returning from Wa. A news Editors Forum will be …

Tamale, Ghana – The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has petitioned President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over the continuous targeted rape and murder of women farmers in many parts of the country. Members of PFAG, drawn from the 10 regional chapters of the Association, marched to the Northern Regional …

Wa West, Ghana – The Ghana Trade Livelihood Coalition (GTLC) has made the Wa West District a focal area for the Voice for Change (V4C) Programme after it was identified as one of the districts most affected by post-harvest losses and malnutrition. The GTLC through the V4C Partnership programme is …

Cancer treatment in Ghana could soon see significant improvement as Ghanaian scientists have found how mold in maize and groundnuts cause liver cancer. Researchers at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology say the poisonous substances suppress important mechanism in cell function. Maize is the third most widely-consumed staple, after …

Salaga, Ghana – Chief Executive for the Zabzugu District Assembly, Ahmed Abukari Iddrisu, has indicated that there are many lessons for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the Northern Region to learn from the Food Security Through Cooperatives in Northern Ghana (FOSTERING) project. According to him, the fostering project could …

Wa, Ghana – Smallholder farmers in the Upper West Region are expected to increase sorghum yield from 1.75 metric tons to 4 metric tons per hectare, which is expected to produce a total of 8,000 metric tons per production season. This expected increase will decrease the high demand for the …

Tamale, Ghana – There are fast evolving changes taking place in all the areas of Ghana’s agricultural sector. The sector employs nearly 60 percent of the country’s total workforce. From the cultivation of thousands of acreages of cereal crops, tubers, vegetables, fruit-bearing trees to the rearing of herds of livestock …

Salaga, Ghana – Board of Directors of the Salaga Farmers Cooperative Credit Union have said that the Credit Union has grown beyond going bankrupt. According to the Board, the Credit Union currently has a total asset value of 2, 623,534.92 Ghana cedis which is above the requirements of the Bank of …

Tamale, Ghana – A Ghanaian-American agribusiness company, POP Diesel Africa Limited– has announced its intention to engage smallholder farmers in this year’s farming season to plant jatropha, an energy plant. With hundreds of lands being made available to POP Diesel Africa by local farmers in the Yendi Municipality estimated between …