5 Critical Food Issues the Minister for Agriculture Should Pay Attention to in 2022
Happy new year to all farmers and agricultural sector stakeholders across the country who are working to keep Ghana food secure. In 2021, this nation...
Category : Agribusiness
Government urged to boost soil production to enhance food security
Dr Edward Yeboah, the Acting Director of CSIR Soil Research Institute, has urged stakeholders to support the government to boost soil production to advance agricultural...
Namibia Records Profit in Agricultural Sector – NSA
THE Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) said the agricultural sector recorded growth of 3,9% in the third quarter of 2021, mainly due to the agriculture and...
If Uganda shuts flood gate of food, Kenyans will sleep hungry
She prefers to ferry her ginger, oranges, mangoes, vegetable and pepper from Uganda to sell in Kenya rather than get them from Kenya where the...
Liberia: 25,000 Smallholder Farmers to Benefit From U.S.$8.84 Million Building Climate Resilience Project
Monrovia — As part of efforts to enhance the agriculture sector and promote climate change in the country, the government of Liberia has received an...
Promoting Nigeria’s agriculture through diaspora investment
The World Bank, in a recent report titled, “Migration and Development Brief 35”, projected $17.6 billion diaspora remittances into Nigeria in 2021, representing a 2.5 per...
Analysts: High fertilizer costs will persist through spring
U.S. crop farmers and farm supply cooperatives are facing operational anxiety heading into 2022, driven by high fuel prices, shortages of agrochemicals and, most importantly,...
Poultry farmer emerges Best Farmer at Ayawaso Central
Mr Kiven Leslie Nii Nunoo Larkai, a 31-year-old Kotobabi-based poultry farmer has been declared the Overall Best Farmer in the Ayawaso Central Municipality. Mr Larkai...
Government announces 50% interest rate subsidy on loans for agribusinesses
Government has announced a 50% interest rate subsidy on loans for agribusinesses. “A framework is being developed to provide a 50% interest rate subsidy for...
Nigeria has potential of earning $2.98b from Cassava export yearly
The sector players in the cassava value chain have advocated the need to leverage resources from the private sector players, to expand the root crop...