Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has advised young entrepreneurs in Africa to focus on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Agriculture. According to him, these are the two main sectors that are worth investing in and that the youth must focus their energies and resources on them. The business magnate who was speaking at the […]
The government of Ghana says it anticipates massive dividends soon from its significant investment into the agriculture sector over the last three years. “We are anticipating a modernized agricultural sector generally, but we also expect abundance of food, improved livelihood for our farmers and fisher-folks, provision of adequate infrastructure to facilitate transportation of agricultural produce, […]
Citizen Watch, one of the leading think-tank organisations in the country, has commended the Ministry of Food and Agriculture for the food efficiency achieved last year. The MoFA’s record of higher yields last year was based on effective input distribution, extension services and the weather. The effective input distribution was achieved through electronic biometric registration, […]
The Agricultural Development Bank (adb) has announced its readiness to meet the central bank’s minimum capital requirements of GH400million as the December 31 deadline fast approaches. This follows an approval by shareholders of the bank to source for additional funds of about GH¢310million to meet Bank of Ghana’s minimum capital requirement. The announcement was made […]
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has injected US$201,215 (GH¢925,589) into the construction of ten 100mt capacity warehouses, as well as the rehabilitation of a 1000mt capacity warehouse and construction of 11 fenced drying-platforms to relieve the plight of smallholder farmers in the country. The Crop Aggregation Centres (CAC) for smallholder farmers in the […]
The Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP) has begun rehabilitation and modernisation of the Tono irrigation scheme in the Upper East Region, to boost agricultural production and increase food security in the country. The project is expected to increase the irrigable area from 1,300 hectares to 2,490 hectares of water for year-round agricultural production. Around 2,300 farmers […]
The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), an African-based fund for agriculture and finance, has launched the Seeds for Impact Programme in Ghana to support sustainable agriculture in 12 West African countries, in Accra. The programme will provide financing and other technical support to seed companies from the beneficiary countries, namely Ghana, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Burkina […]
