Standard Bank Africa announced Friday a 100 million dollar scheme to reach some 750,000 small scale farmers in Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda in a bid to boost output.

Rice importers of the Food & Beverages Association of Ghana (FABAG) have threatened to relocate to neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire if government does not take steps to check the smuggling of rice into the country in future.

The Chief of Staff, Henry Martey Newman has urged Ghanaians to support initiatives aimed at finding a brand identity for Ghana.

ACCRA — Nobel Peace laureate and former UN secretary general Kofi Annan on Thursday said calls on African governments to give priority to agricultural funding are starting to bear fruit.

The country is drafting a bio fuel policy to ease investor access and Effah-Baafi said it was likely that it would be passed by the end of the first half of next year.

The country Director of SEND-Ghana, Mr Samuel Zan Akologo has called for more investment in smallholder agriculture as it could drive broadly-shared economic development and reduce poverty in the country.

Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Monday gave assurance that government would continue to support traditional sources of income even with the discovery of oil and gas.

Asi Nye, an Ada tomato farmer, stands dog-tired in the hot afternoon sun on her farm with her coveted hoe and cutlass.

Cocoa farmers at Nkwantaso in the Dormaa Municipality have appealed to the government and the Ghana Cocoa Board to announce early a new producer price for the crop to forestall problems they encountered with buying companies and purchasing clerks.

Mr. John Pwamang, Registrar of Pesticides at the Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) has called for the establishment of new laboratories or the upgrading of existing facilities to ensure quality control analysis of pesticides.