PRE-HARVEST AGRIC EXHIBITION GETS INTERPLAST SUPPORT
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]Interplast Limited, the largest manufacturer of PVC and HDPE pipes in West Africa, has supported the annual Pre-Harvest conference and exhibition with sponsorship package. Presenting the cheque at a ceremony at the company’s office in Accra, Mr Haidar Malhas, Irrigation Services […]
IT’S TIME TO RESUSCITATE DORMANT COTTON SUB-SECTOR
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.11.1″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.11.1″] Ghana is enormously blessed with a myriad of cash crops; among which is the highly lucrative cotton plant. Cotton is a chief cash crop cultivated in most parts of the globe including Ghana. It is a soft, stable fibre shrub native to tropical […]
KOSMOS ENERGY: BUILDING GHANAIAN SMES ONE AT A TIME
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row custom_padding=”20.7118px|0px|41px|0px|false|false” _builder_version=”3.11.1″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” padding_right_1=”0px” padding_left_1=”0px” padding_left_right_link_1=”true”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ padding_left=”0px” padding_right=”0px” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] Ghana’s budding petroleum industry is anchored by its biggest oil field- The Jubilee Oil field. Jubilee, which is in the Western Region of Ghana, is managed by a group of partner companies and US […]
TOWARDS A REVITALISED CASHEW PRODUCTION SUB-SECTOR
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”41.4236px|0px|0|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row custom_padding=”20.7118px|0px|45px|0px|false|true” _builder_version=”3.11.1″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]As Ghana actively seeks to diversify the country’s commodity export bill, it has become imperative that managers of the economy look in the direction of cashew. The rationale behind this assertion is not far-fetched. Indeed cashew has in recent […]
A CURSORY PEEK AT THE GHANA ZERO HUNGER STRATEGIC REVIEW REPORT
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row custom_padding=”20.7118px|0px|41px|0px|false|false” _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]A recent Aljazeera report dubbed “1,000 Days of Hunger” captured the hunger situation in Ghana thus: “Child malnutrition is a silent tragedy jeopardising the future of more than one million children across Ghana. Many Ghanaian children under the age of […]
TOWARDS IMPROVED FARMER EDUCATION
Farmers are an indispensable source of blessing to Ghana and the reason is not far-fetched. The role they play in national life is so important that one needs not stretch to appreciate the incredible role they play in our lives. Indeed there is hardly any area of life today that is not influenced by the […]
KOSMOS ENERGY: AGRIC’S NEW ALLY
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.9″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.9″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] The success of agriculture is often attributed to the efforts of government’s policies and other interventions which are intermittently rolled-out. In Ghana, history is strewn with numerous interventions that have at one stage or the other been considered potent enough […]
CHINA’S DYNAMIC AGRIC SECTOR AND THE LESSONS FOR GHANA
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] If there is any country which has made the most significant leap in national growth and global significance in the last half century, it has to be China. Having made significant strides in virtually every area of national life, China […]
JAPAN – AN AGRIC NATION THRIVING DESPITE THE ODDS
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”41.4236px|0px|0|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]Crop production is vital to Japan notwithstanding the Asian country’s sparse arable land (13% of the total area) and the highest degree of industrialization in Asia. Steep land (more than 20°) has been terraced for rice and other crops, carrying […]
AGRIC COUNTRY FOCUS: A PEEK AT INDIA
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] India is famous for gifting the world the knowledge and charisma of Mahatma Gandhi as well as the exhilarating movies of Bollywood. As well as being largely known around the world for the aforementioned, the country has made a significant […]