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Minister for Food and Agriculture, Eric Opoku, has said as part of efforts to strengthen the poultry value chain, the following is being done. 50,000 four-week-old guinea keets supplied to 5,000 households for backyard poultry production; 50,000 fourteen-week-old pullets supplied to 500 female farme
Agric Minister Eric Opoku has announced that Ghanaian cocoa farmers will now receive 70% of the world market price, up from the initial 60% proposal.
Eight regions have been selected as beneficiaries to start the phase one of a government initiative dubbed, "Irrigation for wealth creation" for the next 1 year. Regional ministers of the regions namely; Volta, Oti, Central, North East, Northern, Savannah, Upper West and Upper East have been tasked
The General Agricultural Workers Union, GAWU has pledged its support to collaborate with the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Eric Opoku, and the Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Emelia Arthur to deliver decent working opportunities for people in both the formal and informal sec
The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Bryan Acheampong, has assured Ghanaians that there will be no food shortages in the coming months. Speaking at the launch of the government’s $200 million Tree Crop Diversification Project in Accra, he expressed confidence that food prices would remain stabl
Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies. The annual report, launched this
The Minister of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto has said that the government granted approval for the immediate recruitment and deployment of an initial 550 veterinary professionals, out of a total of 1100 Professionals, procurement of vehicles, motorbikes and laboratory equipment
The Director of the Animal Production Directorate of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Edwin Bekoe, has indicated that the Ministry is poised to reduce the importation of chicken by 70 percent by 2025. He has indicated that Ghana is currently importing $380 million worth of meat products annuall
In 2020, there was a shortage of almost every food commodity in Ghana, an official of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has said, contesting President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on his claims that Ghana did not suffer any food shortage last year. In his address on the state of the nat
Women engaged in various agri-businesses in Africa have been urged to research the needs of consumers in order to identify and meet their evolving demands. This, according to the Director of Women in Agriculture Development at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Paulina Addy, would help them drive
There is no need for a crop authority. Ghana just needs an agriculture regulatory authority and put all other government quangos underneath and get the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to concentrate on policy formulation and policy implementation like the Ministry of Energy is doing now, Chief Exec
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has explained why travellers carrying food, especially plants and plant products, at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) are obliged to declare at a fee. The Plant Protection and Regulatory Services Directorate of the Ministry in a rejoinder to a story
The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has presented keys to a brand new motor cycle to Vincent Yeboah, a Community Extension Agent (CEA) responsible for Asankragwa District of the Western South Cocoa region at a short ceremony at Cocoa House in Accra for emerging
