With Kenyan food prices climbing and shortages mounting following an agricultural season marred by crop losses to weather, Farmer service FarmBizAfrica has today launched the most complete AI-driven tool to help farmers double their incomes and slash weather risk in the current planting season.
A recent survey by Global InfoAnalytics has revealed that most cocoa farmers in Ghana believe the government’s newly announced farmgate price is fair, despite street protests and criticism from opposition politicians.
Cocoa farmers have picketed the headquarters of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) in Accra, intensifying protests over falling producer prices and delayed payments that they say are pushing farming households into economic distress.
The Board of Directors of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has resolved not to receive any sitting allowances for the remainder of the 2025/2026 cocoa season as part of efforts to support ongoing reforms in the sector.
Last week, seven Ghanaian traders were gruesomely killed, and several others were wounded when insurgents ambushed a community in Burkina Faso where they had travelled to buy tomatoes and other foodstuffs.
ABIDJAN, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Ivory Coast is considering cutting the price it pays farmers for cocoa beans to align with Ghana, two government sources told Reuters, as the world’s biggest producers of the chocolate ingredient face a major crisis.
Ghana plans to produce between 200,000 and 300,000 metric tonnes of tomatoes within the next two to three years, particularly during the dry season, as part of efforts to reduce imports, the Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture, John Dumelo, has said.
Accra, Ghana//-Community Focus Foundation Ghana (CFF-Ghana) has added its voice to the raging debate on Ghana’s Cocoa sector reforms and to state its candid position.
Harare, Zimbabwe// — The Government of Zimbabwe commissioned a tranche of small-scale agricultural equipment to support climate-smart agriculture, sustainable land management and rural livelihoods in the country’s dryland areas, under the Drylands Sustainable Landscapes Impact Programme (DSL-IP) funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF-7) and supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United […]
Accra, Ghana – In response to the recent tragic terrorist attack in Burkina Faso that affected Ghanaian tomato traders, the Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana, in partnership with key stakeholders across the tomato value chain, today unveiled a comprehensive National Tomato Production Strategy (2026-2030) backed by shocking economic data that reveals Ghana loses approximately GHS 5.7 […]
