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. […]
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Farmers to register biometrically to benefit from fertilizer subsidy as Gov’t moves to eliminate fertilizer smuggling
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 […]