GHANA - Ghana’s local poultry industry is predicted to possess the potential to grow in the next few years due to a 6% increase in consumption of chicken per year, report GNA. According to the Netherlands Ambassador, Mr Ron Strikker, national demand for frozen chicken stood high at 175,000Metric Tonnes(Mt) paving way for large importation…
GHANA - Ghana’s rice imports are expected to dwindle as the country proposes plans to increase its domestic production during the 2017/18 crop season, according to a report by USDA. The report said that growth in production could be attributed to several factors including favourable conditions that would allow production in large quantities and at…
GHANA - Mondelez International has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Forestry Commission of Ghana, Ghana Cocoa Board and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in a new partnership to help reduce emissions from cocoa production in Ghana. Mondelez has committed US$5 million through the Cocoa Life initiative to help reduce emissions from cocoa…
GHANA - Servair Ghana has commissioned its new 2,600 square metre facility at the Kotoka International Airport, a facility expected to prepare 2,500 meals a day. Servair is a catering and logistics provider in France and Africa, which began operations in Ghana in 2011, in partnership with the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) and another…
GHANA - President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has pulled the symbolic switch to officially commission Cargill’s solar facility at the company’s factory in Tema. A statement from Cargill said the President in a brief remark congratulated Cargill for the initiative and said the move to host solar powered energy was in line with government’s agenda…
GHANA - The Brazil Agrobusiness Group, a company focused exclusively on rice cultivation at Kpenu, near Dabala in the South Tongu District is to double production by 2020. The Company’s rice harvest currently corresponds to 2,220 hectares annually with the potential to produce up to 155,400 tons of rice, Ms Lidiane Jaconi, Managing Director of…
GHANA - Ghanaian farmers can now resume export of all plant commodities to the European Union (EU) market from January 1, 2018, following the European Commission’s decision on October 31, to lift the current ban on commodities from Ghana. A release from the European Union Delegation to Ghana copied to the Ghana News Agency in…
GHANA - Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire are working together to address the unfavorable global cocoa pricing regime to reduce the vulnerability of both nations to the volatility of the markets, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana has said. He described as "manifest injustice" the situation where, for the 2015 crop season, both countries earned…
GHANA - The government through the Producer Price Review Committee (PPRC) has decided to maintain the producer price of cocoa at GH¢7,600 per tonne for the 2017/ 2018 growing season. This is equivalent to GH¢ 475 per bag of 64Kg gross weight, the same price as paid to farmers in the 2016/2017 season. This was…
GHANA – A local rice processing company has formally introduced locally processed and packaged rice, boosting domestic rice production and processing in the country and reduce imports. Royal Farmers Rice is a premium parboiled long grain rice, which is locally produced to meet the rising demand for the produce in Ghana and the surrounding countries.…
