The annual global agricultural showpiece, Agrishow Brazil is set to hold from April 27-May 1, 2020 with Ghana set to make another showing, having graced the 2019 edition. Agrishow is the biggest and most important agricultural technology trade show in Brazil and one...

This year’s edition of the women centered agric forum and award scheme WOFAGRIC and THE GOLD IN THE SOIL AWARDS is set to enjoy the support of Canadian Embassy in Ghana and ABSA Ghana ltd and Yara Ghana. Having played a key role in the last edition of the event in...

A recent news report by the Ghana News Agency, GNA captured a not so rare story of the precarious conditions under which most women work in the agric sector.    According to the opening paragraph of the story, “Fear griped the Napila Community in the...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations estimates we need to increase global food production by 60% by 2050. Under current production patterns, much of the increase would need to come from smallholder family farmers in developing countries,...

For many within and without the Agriculture industry, the term ‘agriculture’ resonates mental images of hoes, cutlasses, vegetation-and recently, mechanized farming, pesticides and fertilizers. This mundane view of agriculture though age-old, has endured because most...

Despite considerable efforts aimed at changing youth perceptions of agriculture in Africa, the vocation continues to suffer from entrenched negative perceptions. Many young people still see agriculture as a backbreaking occupation that rewards very little. Despite...

For many within and without the Agriculture industry, the term ‘agriculture’ resonates mental images of hoes, cutlasses, vegetation-and recently, mechanized farming, pesticides and fertilizers. This mundane view of agriculture though age-old, has endured because most...

Women are the backbone of societal growth; and it’s difficult to think of any thriving sphere of life that is independent of a positive feminine influence. In Ghana, the annals are strewn with outstanding women who have shone bright in often spectacular fashion. While...

With a central vision that is hinged largely on driving farmer productivity and profitability through tailor-made crop nutrition solutions, Yara remains a conspicuous player in the local agric industry.  Besides being a leader in crop nutrition, Yara operates with an...

Ghana’s Planting for Food and Jobs program and its allied modules like Rearing for Food and Jobs provides Ghana an interesting blueprint on which to raise and sustain the building blocks of a big, resilient and profitable agriculture for the benefit of all. Already in...