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Nanton, Ghana –  Olam Grains, a subsidiary of multinational agribusiness company called Olam International in Ghana, has began the planting of assorted trees across degraded communities in the Northern Region. The initiative, which is a continuation of some initial 11,000 trees planted last year, seeks to fight systemic deforestation challenges …

Tamale, Ghana – A leading agriculture NGO in the North East Region of Ghana, the Centre for Ecological Agriculture and Livelihood (CEAL), has commenced training of 10 selected smallholder famers on how to prepare good compost manure. Under its newly designed project dubbed “Organic Education for Farmers” (OE4F), it uses …

Tamale, Ghana – The Centre for Ecological Agriculture and Livelihood (CEAL) is set to train and support 2000 smallholder farmers by the close of 2020 in the North East Region of Ghana. The initiative is aimed at introducing innovative organic farming practices in some of the most vulnerable and remote …

Tamale, Ghana – Executive Director of the North East Region based Centre for Ecological Agriculture and Livelihood (CEAL), Issifu Sulemana Jobila, has hinted of a difficult farming season across Northern Ghana in the wake of the raging coronavirus pandemic. According to Mr. Jobila, too much reliance on industrial nations by …

The Importance of Organic Education for Smallholder Farmers of Northern Ghana in a Pandemic World Introduction The global pandemic, coronavirus popularly known as COVID-19, has finally arrived in Ghana since 15th March 2020. Currently, official figures report 313 infected cases and 6 deaths according to medical examination and laboratory test …

Damongo, Ghana – For the first time since the inception of the Harmattan Awards For Development Journalism in 2017, a female broadcast journalist Joyce Kankam Kolamong with GBC Radio Savannah in the Northern Region, has won the overall best journalist in the radio category at the 2019 edition of the …

Damongo, Ghana – Alhaji Salifu Adam Braimah, Savannah Regional Minister, has implored on the media to “change the narrative” by focusing more on issues that would fast track the socio-economic development of the area and not those that would further divide and impoverish the people. Alhaji Braimah lamented that as …

Lassia-Tuolu, Ghana – Domovir Bagolo whistles her favourite tune as she carefully weeds grass in her maize field. The 52-year-old farmer is holding a hoe in one hand and carrying weeds in the other. Her maize is growing well, and she doesn’t use chemical fertilizer. Mrs. Bagolo applies guinea fowl …

Tishiegu, Ghana – It’s a hot and sunny Thursday afternoon and Suraya Bawa is dressed in work clothes, her baby strapped behind her back. The 30-year-old mother works in an old building she converted into a poultry house for rearing guinea fowl chicks. Mrs. Bawa smiles while she feeds the …

Walewale, Ghana – Th Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has cut sod for works to begin on the construction of a Water melon Processing Factory at Walewale in the North East Region, as part of Government’s industrialization agenda of ‘One District One Factory.’ When operational by the …