Category: Agriculture

Lagos, Nigeria// — Endeavor Nigeria has announced the selection of a Ghanaian entrepreneur. Desmond Koney, Founder and CEO of Complete Farmer, into the Endeavor network.

At daybreak in Begoro, in Ghana’s Eastern Region, Sammy Takyi walks slowly between rows of young cocoa trees. The soil is still cool. Broad plantain leaves hang above the tender seedlings, filtering the early morning light and shielding them from the heat that will come later in the day.

Every morning, Mukeshimana Clarisse walks just a few steps from her kitchen to pick fresh vegetables for her family’s meals.

Cape Town, South Africa// — The Portfolio Committee on Agriculture has concluded its engagements with the Minister of Agriculture, provincial MECs for agriculture and senior officials from the national and provincial departments of agriculture on provincial interventions to combat Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD).

Across Eastern and Southern Africa, one opportunity stands out above almost every other for creating jobs at scale: agribusiness. In nearly every conversation I have — with government officials, farmers, entrepreneurs, and young people — the discussion inevitably turns to jobs, and increasingly, agribusiness is the answer. 

Accra, Ghana//-The National Seed Trade Association of Ghana (NaSTAG) has officially taken delivery of 5,000 bags of fertilizers from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) and distributed to its members nationwide.

Rome, Italy// — African countries are stepping up efforts against agricultural plastic pollution. Gathered at FAO’s regional webinar “The Voluntary Code of Conduct for plastics in agriculture: African experiences and the way forward”, experts from across the continent shared practical solutions and emerging initiatives to reduce the environmental impacts of plastics while maintaining agricultural productivity.

Accra, Ghana// — For decades, tsetse flies posed a major constraint to livestock production in Senegal’s Niayes region, transmitting trypanosomosis – a debilitating disease that reduced cattle productivity and forced farmers to rely on low-yield, disease-tolerant breeds.

Accra, Ghana//-The National Seed Trade Association of Ghana (NaSTAG) has urged the government, through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), to urgently off-take a significant portion of the unsold and high-quality seed stocks from certified seed producers in the country.

Cocoa farmers have been spared another potential loss in income after the government decided against reducing the producer price, despite a downturn in international cocoa prices.