The world loses more than 24 billion tonnes of fertile soil each year, according to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) through erosion, compaction, chemical pollution and nutrient depletion. But the global population is rapidly growing as is the demand for food, 95 percent of which is directly or indirectly produced on our soils. [...]
ACCRA, July 11 (Xinhua) -- Ghana aims to achieve an annual cocoa production of 1.5 million metric tonnes within the next four years through reforms, the industry said Tuesday. Addressing the official opening of the West Africa Fertilizer and Agribusiness Conference, Chairman of Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) Hackman Owusu-Agyemang said necessary measures, including hi-tech agronomy practices, were [...]
Hackman Owusu Agyeman, Board Chairman of COCOBOD The Chairman of the board of the Ghana COCOBOD, Hackman Owusu Agyeman has assured that producer prices of cocoa will be maintained for farmers for the next crop season. This comes in the wake of falling cocoa prices on the international market. The CEO of COCOBOD, Joseph [...]
Experts meeting here at the three-day West Africa Fertilizer and Agri-Business Conference which began here on Monday identified depletion of soil nutrients as one of the key challenges to food security on the African continent. Eugine Rurangwa, Land and Water Officer at the UN-Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) African Regional Office noted there is the need [...]
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is hopeful of increasing the country's cocoa bean production Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is hopeful of increasing the country's cocoa bean production to about 1.5million tonnes over the next four years, its Board Chairman, Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, has said. "It is our objective to achieve a targeted 1.5 million tonnes of [...]
Board Chairman of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, has beckoned investors to identify fertilizer needs of specific cocoa districts to establish factories to supply farmers with the product. According to him, there were numerous investment opportunities in the cocoa sector under the New Cocoa Sector Transformational Agenda of COCOBOD. Speaking at a three-day West African [...]
ACCRA, July 15 (Xinhua) -- As Africa eyes on agriculture development as the enabler of job creation and poverty reduction, a renowned Nigerian expert has singled out real investments into extension services as one of the most critical factors that would make the dream a reality. Victor Chude, National President of the Soil Science Society of [...]
ACCRA, Ghana, July 11 2017 – Today over 250 visitors from 43 different countries have joined Hon. Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, Chairman of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), and other senior government figures, to discuss how farmers can obtain the right fertilizer, at the right time and for the right price. The event is a three day conference, [...]
For Africa to help its people create wealth and end youth unemployment, many individuals and institutions believe investing in and modernizing agriculture holds the key. Starting with going into market-driven agriculture, precision farming is based on the demand of the various facets of market, according to Pierre Brunache, Chief Agri-Business Officer African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership [...]
More than 250 business executives will gather in Ghana’s capital Accra this week to discuss trade opportunities in fertilizers, a key input in boosting food productivity in West Africa – a growing investment destination and agriculture hub in the region. The West Africa Fertilizer Agribusiness Conference is the second special collaboration between CRU Events and The [...]
