Agriculture and Labour
8th February, 2020
Mr Benjamin Bankas, Business Development Officer of Atlas Foods Ghana Limited has stressed the need for small-scale producers of agro-produce to be continually schooled in the economics of production.
He said besides staying abreast with how the interplay of local and international factors affected their businesses, these producers should also ...
24th December, 2011
The Secretary General of the Ghana Trades Union Congress, Mr Kofi Asamoah, has called on social partners and the government to restart consultations towards a National Living Wage to ensure workers ...
22nd December, 2011
Surveys on market price trends of agricultural products, statistics and research information that were left on shelves to gather dust in offices would now be made available to the public following the ...
5th December, 2011
The Member of Parliament for the Abirem Constituency of the Eastern Region, Madam Esther Dapaah has donated 40 spraying machines and accessories worth Gh¢32,000.00 to farmers in a selected ...
4th November, 2011
An inter-regional workshop to address challenges in the rice value chain has ended in Tamale with a call on African countries to pool resources for the sustainability and development of the rice ...
13th September, 2011
Cocoa farmers in Bibiani and Sefwi – Wiawso areas of the Western Region, especially those who transact business with the Akuafo Adamfo Marketing Company Ltd, one of the Licensed Buying Companies ...
12th September, 2011
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, has suggested to policymakers to give serious attention to the high rate of unemployment which is the biggest weakness of the ...
29th August, 2011
More than 2.6million seedlings of various trees have so far been planted under the National Plantation Development Project in the Upper West Region.
The project, launched in the Ashanti Region by ...
25th August, 2011
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with its Korean Counterpart in Accra for the enhancement of the Akomadan irrigation project in the ...
20th August, 2011
Mr. Samuel Awuni, the 2010 National Best Farmer has paid a courtesy call on Prof. Kwaku Danso-Boafo, Ghana High Commissioner to UK and Ireland as part of his two weeks tour of the UK.
Mr. Awuni’s ...
19th August, 2011
The Kuapa Kokoo Farmers Union (KKFU) in partnership with Chocolate Halba, a Swiss Chocolate Manufacturing company is to plant 50,000 trees in 20 cocoa communities in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo ...
3rd July, 2011
Ghana will hit the target of 1,000.000.000 (one million) metric
tons of cocoa beans by the end of the 2010-2011 cocoa seasons.
The Executive Director of the Cocoa Research Institute of ...
24th June, 2011
The cocoa industry in the Volta Region is bouncing back as the enthusiasm to plant the cash crop has made giant strides.
About 202,000 hybrid seedlings out of an annual target of 420,000 seedlings ...
21st June, 2011
Mr. Philip Abayori, president of the National Farmers and Fishermen Association of Ghana. (NFFAWAG), has stated that the best way to address the poverty issue in the three northern regions is by ...
17th June, 2011
Ghana can only move its agriculture to a highly commercial stage if it see it as a business, science and art, says Madam Cecelia Erzuah, Director of Finance and Administration at the Ministry of Food ...
15th June, 2011
The Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare has certified that Western Steel and Forgings Limited (WSFL), which suffered an industrial accident some weeks ago, have complied with safety measures to ...
8th June, 2011
Hundred Members of the church of Pentecost in Cape Coast have attended a seminar on grass cutter, rabbit, snail, mushroom and fish farming and how to develop business plan at Adisadel a suburb of Cape ...
25th May, 2011
Vice President John Dramani Mahama, on Tuesday reiterated Government's commitment to promoting mechanized farming to increase food production on relatively small-size land.
He said the days of ...
22nd May, 2011
The National Labour Commission (NLC) has directed the Ghana Education Service (GES) to submit a report to it on measures the Service has taken to address the problems of teachers who have been ...
25th April, 2011
The Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Director of Education, Nana Kofi Adjei Imbeah, has appealed to the Teachers and Education Workers Union (TEWU) to look into the issue of indiscipline in the society ...