The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) has adjudged Moringa as the traditional crop of the month of September, 2014.
Category: Agriculture
Another Multimillion Dollar Judgement Looms
In spite of the nagging cases of judgment debt assailing the nation and the huge tranches of cash being doled out by the State regularly to settle cases arising out of such negligence of politicians and technocrats, the canker goes on unabated, investigations by the African Eye News can reveal. Forestry Commission sources told the African […]
West Africa: Ebola Outbreak Sends Food Prices Shooting Up
Disruptions in food trade and marketing in the three West African countries most affected by Ebola have made food increasingly expensive and hard to come by, while labor shortages are putting the upcoming harvest season at serious risk, FAO warned today. In Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, quarantine zones and restrictions on people’s movement aimed […]
400 Delegates Storm World Cashew Festival & Expo In Accra
By M.A Kunateh, Accra, Ghana The African Cashew Alliance’s prestigious World Cashew Festival & Expo returns to Ghana for the second year running, with a four-day event beginning on 11th November 2014 at the Accra International Conference Centre. According to the organisers, over 400 delegates from all over the world and from all levels […]
GCAP To Boost Agri-Business Investment
By Mashood .A Kunateh in Accra, Ghana Managers of the Ghana Commercial Agricultural Project (GCAP) are confident that the multimillion dollar World Bank and USAID funded project would help boost private sector investments in the country’s agric sector. According to them, the GCAP is working to sanitise and magnetise the agribusiness investment in Ghana. The […]