Month: June 2017
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INTERNATIONAL AGRIC NEWS
Zimbabwe: GMB Moisture Content Limit Spawns Dealers – Farmers Lose Millions to Illegal Traders – Govt Input Schemes Under Threat
By Walter Nyamukondiwa A two-tier black market system has emerged outside most Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots countrywide where grain…
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Agri National
Sale of cocoa fertilizers: NDC Minority economical with truth – COCOBOD
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has accused the NDC Minority in Parliament of being economical with the truth, over the…
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Agri National
Seedlings shortage rocks government’s planting for food, job policy
Barely two months after it was launched, government’s flagship agricultural programme-planting for food and jobs- is gasping under shortage of…
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Agri National
Farmers wanted free fertilizer policy scrapped – COCOBOD
In response to criticisms by the Minority in Parliament, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has said its decision to do…
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Agri Business
Identify Relationship between Bank and Business – Farmers Advised
The Relationship Officer of the Opportunity Savings & Loans Bank Somanya, Mr. Eric Addai, has established that there is a…
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Agri National
Govt begins feasibility study into construction of two fishing harbours
The government has begun the feasibility study for the construction of two fishing harbours at Jamestown in the Greater Accra…
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Agri National
Planting for Food & Jobs: Local seed dealers unable to meet demand
The Minister of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has expressed regret that local seed producers in Ghana…
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Agri National
Ghana to host West Africa Fertilizer Agribusiness conference in July
The CRU Events (Commodities Research Unit) has partnered the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) to host the West Africa…
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INTERNATIONAL AGRIC NEWS
Zimbabwe: Communal Farmers Top Maize Yield – Report
By Elita Chikwati Communal farmers are leading in maize production for the 2016-17 farming season, as their output increased by…
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Agri National
40,000 Cocoa farmers to receive GH¢2.4m bonuses
Fourty thousand cocoa farmers nationwide are to be paid bonuses totaling GH¢2,338,976 during the 2016/2017 cocoa season. The bonuses, to…
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