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.
Category: Agriculture
Ghana COCOBOD Board Waives Sitting Allowances to Support Sector Reforms
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.
What Deadly Burkina Faso Ambush Says About Our Unfinished Agric Promises
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.
Ivory Coast Considers Following Ghana with Cocoa Price Cut
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 Targets up to 300,000 Metric Tonnes of Dry Season Tomatoes in 3 Years
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.
CFF-Ghana Adds Its Voice to the Raging Debate on Cocoa Sector Reforms
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.
Zimbabwe: Gov’t Commissions Climate-smart Farming Equipment to Strengthen Dryland Livelihoods, Restore Degraded Landscapes
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 […]
Ghana’s Tomato Sector Loses GHS 5.7 Billion Annually
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 […]
Ghana Needs A 20-Year Agricultural Transformation Strategy Now
Accra, Ghana//-The Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG) today released a comprehensive report calling for Ghana to urgently develop and implement a 20-year National Agricultural Transformation Strategy, fundamentally shifting from the short-term, politically driven agricultural programs that have characterised the sector since independence.
Symbol of Unity , Nigeria’s Argungu Fishing Contest Returns After Years of Pause
Thousands of fishermen converged on the milky waters of the Matan Fadan river, a UNESCO heritage site, winding through verdant landscape in northwestern Nigeria’s Argungu.