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On the occasion of this year’s Farmers’ Day, the Coalition for Cocoa Sector Reforms (CSR) is pushing for expedited action on the implementation of a cocoa farmers’ pension scheme announced by the government. Government has said it is working with the National Pensions Regulatory Authority to design and implement a sustainable pension scheme for cocoa farmers in the country to cushion them on their retirement. “A major threat to sustainable cocoa production is the ageing cocoa farmers and the lack of interest shown by the youth in cocoa farming,” vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia observed at the 20th-anniversary celebration of…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has advised Ghanaians to patronise made in Ghana rice to boost the efforts of Ghanaian rice farmers. “We must eat what we grow to motivate our farmers, and support the development of the local food industry,” he told a gathering of farmers, government officials and local authorities at the 35th Farmers’ Day celebration at Ho in the Volta Region. According to him, his wife Rebecca Akufo-Addo “insists that we eat local rice at home, and has made sure of it. I call on all Ghanaians to follow my example, and eat local rice”. He said…

Media General’s annual Startup Fair and Funding Summit for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) has started at the Junction Mall, Nungua in Accra. The three-day event creates a bigger platform for SMEs to showcase their products and services to thousands of people across the country and beyond. Participants will also get financial advice and be educated by well-established entrepreneurs and experts on how to source funding for their business as well as keys to business growth. Over 90 SMEs in almost all the sectors of the economy are participating in this year’s event which will end on Sunday, December…

Media General’s annual Startup Fair and Funding Summit for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) has started at the Junction Mall, Nungua in Accra. The three-day event creates a bigger platform for SMEs to showcase their products and services to thousands of people across the country and beyond. Participants will also get financial advice and be educated by well-established entrepreneurs and experts on how to source funding for their business as well as keys to business growth. Over 90 SMEs in almost all the sectors of the economy are participating in this year’s event which will end on Sunday, December…

Members of Parliament have unanimously identified integrated recycling and compost plant as the best option to help address Ghana’s solid waste management challenges. According to them, the decade old landfill system has now become nuisance to people and their communities due to how poorly they are managed as a result of lack of funds. They thus want government to move away from managing landfill sites and invest more in integrated recycling and compost facilities, which they contended, will give it value for money. Commenting on the matter on the floor of Parliament Tuesday, the Minority Chief and National Democratic Congress…

On the occasion of the 35th National Farmers’ Day, I join all Ghanaians to wish all our farmers and fisherfolk a Happy Farmers’ Day. Your sacrifices and toil throughout the decades to put food on our table cannot be understated. Your daily toil, under very trying conditions provides our national food requirements, raw material for our industry and export commodities for the needed foreign exchange receipts. As we celebrate this special occasion and urge government not only to reward farmers but create opportunities for the embracement of modern farming technologies, I urge corporates and financial institutions to also support the farming…

Plans are afoot for the setting up of a cassava processing factory under the One District One Factory initiative in Shama, District Chief Executive Joseph Amoah has disclosed to a gathering at a ceremony to mark the 35th edition of the Farmers’ Day Celebration at Nyankrom in the Shama District of the Western Region. Mr Amoah is hopeful that when the processing factory is set up, the thousands of tonnes of cassava produced in the district will not go waste. “In 2017, cassava farmers in the district produced 11,172 metric tonnes of cassava. In 2018, they produced 12,350 metric tonnes.…

A deepened trade relationship between Ghana and the United Arab Emirates in the area of gas derivatives is key in accelerating the economic growth agenda of the West African country which has a population of closed to 30 million and a per capita income of $4,211.85 in 2018. Deeper gas sector cooperation between Ghana and UAE is expected to drive the development of foreign trade between the two countries, create employment in Ghana and create wealth. “The UAE is a leading exporter of gas derivatives and this is an area we really want to deepen relationship”, Ghana’s Senior Minister, Yaw…

On the occasion of the 35th National Farmers’ Day, I join all Ghanaians to wish all our farmers and fisherfolk a Happy Farmers’ Day. Your sacrifices and toil throughout the decades to put food on our table cannot be understated. Your daily toil, under very trying conditions provides our national food requirements, raw material for our industry and export commodities for the needed foreign exchange receipts. As we celebrate this special occasion and urge government not only to reward farmers but create opportunities for the embracement of modern farming technologies, I urge corporates and financial institutions to also support the…

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, 5th December, 2019, presented a number of vehicles to the Ghana Armed Forces, in fulfillment of a pledge he made to them this year. Presenting the vehicles at a ceremony at Burma Camp, President Akufo-Addo recounted a pledge he made to the Armed Forces on 21st March, 2019. “I indicated, at that event, that, during the course of this year, we will provide the Army, in addition to the 138 staff and operational vehicles of various categories that had been supplied to you in February this year, with 30 Armoured Personnel Carriers…