Without Asia’s buyers due to the Coronavirus pandemic, local cashew farmers and dealers say they are left with no option but to sell their raw nuts at giveaway prices.
The cash crop has been a supreme contributor to the country’s Non-traditional Exports (NTEs) earnings over the years, topping the list...
The decision to involve Rural and Community Banks in the distribution of funds from the COVID-19 stimulus package to businesses is both proper and timely. Together with the EXIM Bank and other commercial banks, the RCBs will ensure the stimulus package reaches all potential SMEs earmarked to receive the...
It is as if the COVID-19 pandemic which is ravaging the globe is not bad enough, and farmers are feverishly preparing their fields to catch the rains in good time.
Fall armyworm (FAW) infestations were first reported in the country in 2016 with maize as a preferred host. Subsequently, the...
I am a student of life, I am a member of the African diaspora and I am a Pan-Africanist – that means I love Africa and my African heritage and it does not mean that I hate people or anything of non-African heritage. As a matter of fact, I...
Politicians must refrain from politicising the country’s fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that is ravaging countries across the globe, Professor J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, President of the Trinity Theological Seminary (TTS), Legon, has cautioned.
Speaking to a cross-section of journalists during a disinfection and fumigation exercise by the Vector...
…what they can do to prepare for COVID-19 recovery
In this COVID-19 moment when hospitality businesses are so much in need of a bail out and following the President’s directive to the Finance Minister to make available a GHC 1 billion stimulus package to support businesses, an economist, Dr. Lord...
Importers who were troubled due to the refusal of shipping companies to waive demurrage/detention charges as requested by the Ghana Shippers Authority (GSA) from March 30, 2020 to April 19, 2020 can now heave a sigh of relief as the industry regulator has concluded consultations with other stakeholders to...
For two years running the country’s agriculture sector has experienced declines in growth, despite an impressive performance in 2017 after the government introduced the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme.
Annual GDP figures released by the Ghana Statistical Service show that the country’s largest employer – the agriculture sector...
Mobile money transfers across different networks - also known as Mobile Money Interoperability (MMI) - have shot up by 358 percent in the first three months of this year, compared to the same period last year.
The volume went up from 1,118,210 in the first quarter of last year to...
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh, has been adjudged CEO of the year 2019 within MTN Group, as voted for by the company’s senior leadership. He shares the award with the CEO of MTN Benin, Stephen Blewett.
This was announced at the Group’s first digital Quarterly...