Author: Sefakor

Tomatoes farmers in Tuobodom in the Bono East Region risks losing their investments and are in desperate need of buyers of their produce. According to a resident, Nana Kwame Amoah, there’s bumper harvest of tomatoes in the area but the farmers are struggling to get buyers. As a result, he has resorted to advertising for the farmers on social media in order to get buyers from other parts of the country. Mr. Amoah has been spreading this information for the past week. “Tomatoes is in abundance at Tuobodom (near Techiman). The prices are so cool.Help the farmers before their tomatoes…

COVID-19 had a strong negative impact on the Kusanaba Women’s Group in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region. The group won a significant contract to sell the shea butter they process, but the pandemic depleted their financial resources so they could not purchase raw shea kernel. Thanks to a rural bank with a strategic imperative to lend to more women and support from a local transaction advisor, the women were able to secure financing so they could supply their customers. The Kusanaba Women’s Group is comprised of 500 members, mostly widows. They cultivate maize and groundnut on…

Two fishermen who were accused of cheating during the Lake Erie Walleye Trail fishing tournament last September – after it was discovered their fish were stuffed with lead weights and fish fillets – will serve jail time for the crime, according to court documents from a Thursday sentencing hearing. As part of an agreement reached in March, Jacob Runyan and Chase Comnisky pleaded guilty to charges of cheating and of unlawful ownership of wild animals. Additional charges of attempted grand theft and possessing criminal tools were dropped as part of the plea deal. Runyan and Cominsky will each serve 10…

Snail production is increasingly becoming one of the attractive areas of the agricultural sector as the annual demand for snails in Ghana cannot be exaggerated and the international trade in snails keeps flourishing.  In September last year, The Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) encouraged Ghanaians to capitalize on the global snail value chain business which reached $2 billion. Contributing her quota to create jobs in the snail industry, the Member of Parliament for Korle Klottey in the Greater Accra region, Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings in partnership with Agrihouse Foundation, an indigenous agricultural advocacy group, has organized a one-day intensive…

While the Ministry for Food and Agriculture has touted the success of its flagship programme, Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ), the Chamber of Fertiliser Ghana is calling for a fresh comprehensive audit of the activities of the project as it doubts the reports from the ministry. According to the chamber, there’s little or nothing to match the success story MoFA has made Ghanaians believe. Their call for a fresh audit came after a media report which indicated that newly appointed Minister for Food and Agriculture, Brian Acheampong has suspended the initiative to determine the impact of subsidies on fertiliser…

As part of initiatives to achieve food security and safety, the World Food Programme (WFP) has supported some indigenous food processing companies in Ghana to produce safe and nutritious foods. According to the Country Director of the WFP, Barbara Clemens, the global food management institution, has a long-term plan that will lead to the African continent producing and supplying more than half of the crucial nutritious food products required for their programmes. “WFP is working to address by supporting the production, processing, and distribution of a diversity of foods, including grains, cereals, pulses, fortified, vegetable oils, and specialized nutritious foods…

Ghana has surpassed Ivory Coast in cocoa production over the half year 2022/23 crop season, according to the latest Cocoa Market Report by the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO). As of 31 March 2023, cumulative arrivals of cocoa beans in Ivory Coast were lagging behind previous season levels, while the volume of graded and sealed cocoa beans purchased in Ghana since start of the 2022/23 season was reported at 566,846 tonnes, representing an 18 percent increase from the previous year. Despite the increase in Ghana’s cocoa production, total supply of cocoa beans from the world’s top-two cocoa producers for the first…

The Global Shea Alliance with its NGO partners have started the grafting of shea seedlings to reduce their maturity period from 25 years to three to five years. This forms part of the Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project which is aimed at addressing deforestation and the restoration of degraded shea landscapes in the Northern Savanah ecological zone. In all 70 community-based nurseries across the five regions of the north have been engaged to produce different tree spices and shea for planting. About 3,500,000 shea seedlings will be planted, 480,000 native trees and 100,000 hectares of degraded parklands will be…

The high cost of tomatoes lately is pushing a lot of Ghanaians to look for cheaper alternatives for their cooking needs. Tomatoes are a major staple for the majority of Ghanaian delicacies and it becomes a huge financial burden when it is out of season. The prices of tomatoes currently are relatively high compared to the prices in the past few years. In major markets in Accra such as Makola, Kaneshie, Ashaiman, and Agbogbloshie, a medium-sized tomato now costs between GHS 1.50 to GHS 2.50, while a small paint container of tomatoes is sold between GHC100 and GHC120. Obviously, ordinary Ghanaians…

The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development has disclosed efforts by the government to reduce the high cost of fish feed in Ghana by providing cheaper alternatives to imported ones. According to the Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Moses Anim, the ministry is collaborating with the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to develop fish feed using cassava and insects. Mr. Anim was speaking at the maiden edition of an exhibition, Dinner and Awards Night organised by the Chamber of Aquaculture Ghana in collaboration with the Ministry and the Fisheries Commission. The two-day event which hosted 30…