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Agriculture and Labour
1st June, 2010
The Weija irrigation farms, are under threat by encroachers who have taken over most of the 1,500 hectare land acquired purposely for agriculture.
Mr Zachary Gabireh, Deputy Director of the ...
24th May, 2010
Mr. Ibrahim Adam, Board Chairman of the Agriculture Development Bank (ADB), has pledged the bank’s financial support to farmers, especially those in large-scale farming.
Mr. Adam said this ...
19th May, 2010
GHANA should continue to focus on the cocoa sector in spite of the prospects from the oil find, the Municipal Director of the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease Control (CSSVD) of COCOBOD, in charge of ...
15th May, 2010
The Songor Salt Company which faced a myriad of difficulties in the past has bounced back with the production of more than 30,000 metric tonnes of Salt.
This is under a new three-man Interim ...
11th May, 2010
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) is seeking to ease the challenges that the domestic poultry industry face and to fast tract the development of livestock agriculture.
The interventions ...
7th May, 2010
THE Dangme West District Assembly (DWDA) has acquired a-265-acre land at Kordiabe for plantain and mango plantation.
The project, estimated at GH˘50,000, is to help create employment for the youth ...
6th May, 2010
Nii Odametey, the Chief Fisherman of the Tema Canoe Beach, has called for the dredging of the canoe basin that serves as landing base for over 500 canoes.
He told the GNA in an interview that it ...
30th April, 2010
THIS year’s May Day celebration by organised labour, which falls on Saturday,
May 1, has been dedicated to Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s First President.
It is to be celebrated ...
29th April, 2010
The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Kwesi Ahwoi, has urged farmers, organisations and financial institutions to promote and encourage cultivation of rubber trees to check mitigate the effect of ...
29th April, 2010
THE Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is weeding out all illegal dealers of agricultural inputs.
For that matter, it is ...
28th April, 2010
The International Centre for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development (IFDC) in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) have commenced a project to ensure that agro chemicals ...
20th April, 2010
The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Kwesi Ahwoi, has expressed concern about surveys which consistently show that poverty among people working in the agricultural sector is the highest among all the ...
19th April, 2010
THE Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) has declared its readiness to “sit down anytime, anywhere, with the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FUSC) to assist in resolving ...
19th April, 2010
A road engineer has emphasised the need for government to empower local road construction firms to develop the requisite capacity to enable them to compete favourably with their foreign counterparts ...
10th April, 2010
THERE is an outbreak of aphids and mealy bugs diseases that attack fruits, have broken out at the Akosombo in the Eastern Region.
The worst affected are pawpaw and the trees and residents with the ...
1st April, 2010
The Agriculture Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday presented a three bedroom house worth GH˘100,000 to the 2008 National best farmer, Dr. Simon Saku.
The three bedroom house comprising a ...
29th March, 2010
The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) says it is upbeat about the road show and workers fora it has embarked upon because the discussions will facilitate effective implementation of the ...
29th March, 2010
FOUR hundred and twenty farmers in the Upper West Region are being provided with 4,200 sheep to augment their stock to boost animal husbandry to meet the protein needs of the country.
The project ...
24th March, 2010
Government has acquired many acres of farmland for extensive block farming in the North Tongu District, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a Deputy Minister of Information said at the weekend.
He said the ...
12th March, 2010
The African Cocoa Coalition (ACC) has proposed a fund to build the capacity of cocoa farmers, improve infrastructure in cocoa growing areas and enhance farmers’ incomes.
ACC is an autonomous ...
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