747 The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Digital Centres Limited, Honourable Kwadwo Baah Agyemang led management and staff of GDCL to plant trees at the Accra Digital Centre, as part of activities to commemorate the Green Ghana Day. The Green Ghana Day was introduced in 2021, as part of an aggressive national afforestation/reforestation programme […]
Agriculture
A/R:News Editors Receive Training On Biotechnology and Genetically Modified Organisms
758 News Editors and Senior Journalists in the Ashanti Region have been schooled on Biotechnology and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). The training was to enable them to contribute significantly to demystify the misconception and mystery surrounding the adoption of the intervention. The training, organized by the Open Forum on Agriculture Biotechnology (OFAB) Ghana, in collaboration […]
Offinso Forest District poised to plant 500 thousand seedlings under green Ghana program this year
674 Management of the Offinso Forest District has initiated moves to ensure that a projected 500 thousand seedlings earmarked for planting within the district as part of the greening Ghana for this year is achieved. Aside this target, the district has also put in measures to plant about 600 hectares of trees under the modified […]
Fertilizer shortage may lead to famine-Former national best farmer cautions
669 The Pressure mounted on government to settle the debts of Fertilizer Suppliers keep growing as stakeholders are demanding the government as The recent Major Stakeholder to have added his voice to the call is a Former National Best Farmer in 2014, Mr. George Asamoah -Amankwaa is urging the government to make provision of fertilizers […]
Peasant Farmers Threaten To Quit Planting For Food ,Jobs Program As Fertilizer Suppliers Remain Unpaid
718 Peasant Farmers under government’s flagship programme, “Planting for Food and Jobs” have expressed worry over how their farming businesses are gradually dying off following lack of fertilizers for their farming activities. According to farmers, their suppliers are not able to supply them with the fertilizers again because they said government is feeling reluctant to […]
Agritech West Africa 2022 launched in Accra
1,086Ghana is going to witness the one of its kind largest exhibition covering the entire value chain of agriculture from agriculture machines to agrochemicas to food processing and packaging to processing and packed food and beverages items under one roof. ie Agrictech West Africa exhibition. Mr.Jeremy Opoku Agyemany, deputy director and head of the agribusiness […]
Two Cocoa smugglers arrested in volta region
1,068Operation Enhance Calm Life made up of officers and men from the Police, Immigration, and Military have arrested two suspects at Wli in the Volta Region for attempting to smuggle Cocoa beans into Togo. The two suspects are Isaac Mensah age 29, and Somevi William age 30 Though some managed to escape through the Bushes, […]
Eating Foreign Rice May Increase Your Blood Sugar-Western D33dew CEO
747 Western D33DEW Group CEO,Mr. Kwabena Amofa has cautioned Ghanaians to adopt to the use of eating Ghana made rice. According to him,the local rice contains fiber and that regulates one’s blood sugar level and limits the tendency of getting diabetes, pressure , amongst other diseases. He revealed that rice from foreign countries has limited […]
Senior High Schools Have Enough Food-Education Ministry
1,071 The Education Ministry has announced that there is no food shortage in Senior High Schools (SHS’s) across the country. According to the Deputy Minister for Education, Rev. John Ntim Forjour, speculations being peddled around that there is a food shortage in certain SHS’s are unfortunate and attempt to create a negative impression against the […]
Cocoa Splitting Machine Inventor Calls On Government For Support
738 Ebo Ghunney, a graduate from National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) who earlier, this year manufactured cocoa splitting machine has upgraded his technology and is calling on the government of Ghana to help him to produce more of his product for the benefit of Cocoa farmers . The new machine, Noghusam Obaatampa-A21 fully operates automatically […]