The government has released GH¢260.4 million to settle the Ministry of Food and Agriculture’s (MoFA’s) indebtedness to 71 fertiliser companies to bolster the government’s flagship Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme. The release of the funds formed part of MoFA’s efforts to address the shortage of subsidised fertiliser facing smallholder farmers in the country. […]
The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) yesterday presented a cash prize of Gh¢570,000 to the 2020 National Best Farmer, Mr Solomon Kwadwo Kusi. Mr Kusi was presented the amount at a short ceremony in Accra during which the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, commended farmers for their tireless efforts to provide food […]
The government is constructing 80 warehouses with the capacity to store up to 80,000 metric tonnes(MT) of food items aimed at ensuring food security in the country. Each warehouse would have the capacity to store up to 1,000 MT of food items and expected to be ready by June, this year. Speaking at a media […]
The Minister of Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has revealed that for the first time, Ghana did not import any seeds in the 2019 crop season. He was speaking at the launch of the new ‘Leadership4Africa’ Forum for African Agriculture Ministers held in Accra yesterday. The Minister said, “Improved seed that our own scientists had […]
By John Elliot HAGAN, Accra Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto has revealed that Ghana exported 150,000 metric tonnes (MT) of food items worth GH₵400 million to neighbouring countries, including Togo, Cote d’Ivoire, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin and Northern Nigeria, last year. GH₵3.3 billion generated at the farm-gate Additionally, he said […]
The government through MoFA has introduced a new electronic coding and traceability technique in a bid to monitor government’s fertiliser subsidy programme and farming inputs. The new service requires that every farmer who wants to benefit from the subsidy has to be biometrically registered, and only farmers who have already registered can have access to […]
