An international animal nutrition and feed company, Nutreco, has expressed interest in investing in Ghana’s poultry and aquaculture feed industry.

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In 2011 70,000 tons of US chicken alone was imported into Ghana, much to the dismay of local poultry farmers, who have repeatedly made their feelings known to Ghanaian governments both past and present.

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The Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers is to receive a GH¢350,000.00 life-line package to boost the operations of the members and make the poultry industry more vibrant.

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The Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers is to receive a €146,392 (350,000 Ghanaian cedi) to boost the operations of the members and reinvigorate the poultry industry.

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Ghana is on course with its interventions to salvage the local poultry industry, Dr. Alfred Sugri Tia, the Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture in charge of Livestock, has stated.

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The vaccination of cattle infected with anthrax in the Bawku West district of the Upper East region has been suspended.

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This follows persistent concerns expressed by poultry farmers over the influx of imported poultry products onto the market which they bemoan is seriously hampering their business.

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Even at nightfall, it’s easy to spot signs of Ghana’s growing wealth in downtown Accra—from the Toyota (TM) Land Cruisers scattered among honking taxis to the ripples of laughter that emanate from a packed rooftop lounge.

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Members of BOCADA expressed the concern at a stakeholders meeting held in Bolgatanga at the weekend to deliberate on how to overcome the problem.

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Ghana is likely to stop the importation of poultry products by 2013. The Ghanian government has given indications that it will endeavor to protect Ghana from imported poultry products.

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Ghanaian poultry product importers have called on the local Government to reduce taxes on imported frozen poultry products to avoid automatic increases in the cost of the products.

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Dr Alfred Sugri Tia, a Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture, has given his assurance that the government would use all legitimate means to discourage the importation of frozen meat in the country.

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The launch of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in Accra recently raises questions about government’s determination to reduce or ban the importation of frozen chicken into the country.

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Ghana's poultry farmers are struggling to survive crippling competition from their counterparts in developed countries as the country imports $200 million worth of chicken every year, according to Ghana Business News.

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Dr Tia Alfred Sugri, Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture in charge of Livestock, has called for heavy investment in the livestock and poultry sectors to enhance the competitiveness of local production in animal produce, according to Ghana Web.

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Dr Tia Alfred Sugri, Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture in charge of Livestock, has called for heavy investment in the livestock and poultry sectors to enhance the competitiveness of local production in animal produce, according to Ghana Web.

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Approximately 21 million layers are in the country presently, Chairman of the Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers (GNAPF) has announced.

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The poultry industry is a major source of employment for most of the people in the two districts, reports GhanaWeb.

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The government in Ghana is to establish a Poultry Support Programme to revamp the poultry industry in coming years, the country’s Vice President John Dramani Mahama announced on Friday.

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Vice President John Dramani Mahama has announced that government would not do anything that would jeopardise the progress of the local poultry industry, according to a local news agency.

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Vice President John Dramani Mahama has announced that government would not do anything that would jeopardise the progress of the local poultry industry, according to a local news agency.

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The veterinary authority sent an Immediate Notification dated 28 April to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

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Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture, has said the government was committed to developing the rice industry into a major income earner to contribute to rural poverty reduction.

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GHANA's Food and Drugs Board (FDB) has issued a warning about the distribution and sale of fake-labelled Exeter Corned Beef on the market.

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Dr Anthony Nsoh Akunzule, Deputy Director of Veterinary Service Directorate of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), has expressed concern about the collapse of smallholder poultry breeding, according to Ghana Web.

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The Agriculture Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to sink 400,000 Ghana cedi (GHS) into the project with the remaining GHS53,000 expected to come from the public, according to Ghana Web.

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The project which would be launched at an inception workshop at Wa, would focus on vaccinating animals, especially poultry, against these so called neglected diseases, according to the Ghana News Agency.

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Poultry industry is still facing problems, according to Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). These are uncompetitive interest rates, the lack of high subsidising cost of maize production and tariffs to enable poultry farmers to compete with products coming from other parts of the world.

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Two feature articles that opposed the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to Ghana/Africa were published on modernGhana web site about three weeks ago. The first was entitled “Why is Kofi Annan Fronting for Monsanto? The GMO Assault on Africa” and the second was entitled “Why Ghanaians should stay away from GM Foods: Dr. Kwame Osei”.

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An association of egg sellers has been established in Kumasi to serve as an interface between producers and consumers in the promotion of Ghana's poultry industry, reports Accra Mail.

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Agricultural Ministries of Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire have lifted a more than four-year old ban on animal trade between their two countries.

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The poultry and livestock industries in Ghana are calling for a more rationalised national economic policy that favours local producers. Producers in Ghana’s poultry industry worry that the influx of imported poultry products threatens their jobs and is also a serious threat to national food security.

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Annan Receives Borlaug Medallion for Global Leadership in Africa Food Security

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Parliament members in Gahna call on the government to adequately support the agricultural sector, especially the poultry industry in the country. Mr Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, Member of Parliament (MP) for Dormaa-West, reminded the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to honour its promises to local poultry farmers in order to remove impediments in the way of players in the industry.

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Accra, Ghana, 12 August 2010 - African heads of state, industry representatives, the international donor community and farmers will meet in Ghana at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in the first week of September. Delegates will create an action plan on the acceleration of a Green Revolution in Africa. Chaired by Kofi Annan, chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), this is the first time the forum will be held in Africa. It is expected to be one of the continent’s major gatherings of both public and private players to focus solely on agriculture development. “We will be looking to governments for leadership to create an environment that will enable agriculture to prosper and grow and we will be looking to the private sector to drive and sustain that growth,” says Kofi Annan. “Working together we can achieve a food secure and prosperous Africa.”

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The Upper East Region abounds in mineral resources that should be tapped for development, Mr Mark Woyongo, Regional Minister has said. The Regional Minister told the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Billy Williams, when he visited the Region to inspect and commission some projects the High Commission was funding. The Regional Minister mentioned gold and bauxite as some of the resources in areas such as Nabdam in the Talensi-Nabdam and Sandema in the Builsa Districts.

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The Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers (GNAPF) has appealed to the government to discourage what it calls the 'dumping of cheap imported poultry products into the country' and create fair competition for the local poultry industry.

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Jonas Osafo Adamu, Managing Director of Hambeg Farms, a budding poultry farm at Anum in the Eastern Region, has slammed governments over the years for paying lip-service to the development of the poultry industry in the country. He said past governments had displayed timidity in the face of international trade pressures, thereby incapacitating local farmers' ability to breed chickens for the table.

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The National Service Scheme (NSS) has begun cultivating a 700-acre maize farm, on its newly acquired 2000-acre plot of land at Ejura in the Ashanti Region, to help complement government's efforts at ensuring food security. The maize farm, known as the Ejura Agric Project (EAP), started about two and a half months ago, has already reached tassel stage. The NSS has also started clearing an additional 500 acres of the 2000-acre land, in readiness for the minor season, for maize cultivation.

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Members of a 15-nation west African economic bloc met in Dakar on Monday to develop a plan to boost agricultural investment in the midst of a severe food crisis in parts of the region. "The economic and financial crisis has increased the agricultural divide between northern and southern countries. We can not sit idly by," said Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade at the opening of the meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). "Our continent has the potential to counter this divide," Wade said.

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The Agricultural Research Centre (ARC) of the University of Ghana (UG) has developed an Aquaculture Project to culture tilapia in commercial quantities to serve as a source of funding for its (ARC) activities.

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The waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has announced plans to go into farming and is in discussion with the Ministry of Food And Agriculture. According to management of the company, it is in discussion with the ministry to identify areas in the northern part of Ghana, which is suitable for planting. The legal advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of Zoomlion , Mr. Nat Armaah, disclosed this to journalists during a press conference it organized last Thursday at the M Plaza hotel.

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Farmers in Northern Ghana are to benefit from a new program aimed at increasing their earning potential. The program, launched by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the International Centre for Soil Fertility (IFDC), will create more sustainable markets where farmers can sell their produce for profit.

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Ghana like the rest of the world has become the dumping ground of cheap Chinese imports. These Chinese imports include food, drugs and electronics. Of these cheap imports, food and medicine have been my objects of worry. Recently, I added electrical products to that list when investigators zeroed in on defective electrical wires as being responsible for the recent spate of building fires in Ghana.

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Under-investment in agriculture has left many governments across Africa struggling to feed their people, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization director-general Jacques Diouf said on Thursday.

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Two Ghanaian companies, Unik Dezines Ltd and SpeedGold Ghana Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a group of Chinese Investors to assemble farming equipment and other manufacturing ventures. The Chinese investors were in Ghana for a presentation and to sign a Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of 10 multi-million dollar factories by the end of the year. The factories would assemble farming equipment, including tricycles and Tarpaulins and also go into the production of salt and sugar as well as socks and towel manufacturing.

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Ghana's VP John Dramani Mahama says the country has a comparative advantage in rice and poultry production, and government would strive to promote growth in the 2 economic ventures. "We cannot ban the importation of rice and poultry because we might be flouting the World Trade Organisation rules, and so what we can do is to protect these industries from outside companies by supporting them to survive in the open market competition," he said, according to MyJoyOnline.

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Government has acquired many acres of farmland for extensive bloc farming in the North Tongu District, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a Deputy Minister of Information said at the weekend. He said the farm would employ hundreds of unemployed youth in the Area and reduce migration to urban areas.

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Consumers and sellers of fried turkey tails, popularly known in Ghana as ‘tsofi’, are against the new resolve of the Food and Drugs Board (FDB) to enforce the ban on the fatty delicacy

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The government is negotiating with the World Bank to help fund a project aimed at boosting rice production in the West African nation, the Ghana News Agency reported, citing Vice President John Dramani Mahama

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The government of Ghana, in support of Fisheries Act 625 of 2002, requires that all fishing vessels are properly registered and identified

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The Yendi Municipality in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) would engage in intensive dry season farming with effect from this year to keep the peopl= e in active agriculture

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My attention was drawn to the Article with the caption to which I am submitting this rejoinder not by the contents of the Article, per se, but the commentaries that some readers on the Ghanaweb.com forum contributed on it. I was shocked by the comments of some individuals that sounded very literally eloquent but displayed abysmal understanding and appreciation of the need to uphold our Laws, especially those laws that protect our Forests

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The Dormaa Poultry Farmers Association in Ghana, has called on the government to speed up efforts to reduce import of poultry products to protect local farmers

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The National Farmers and Fishermen Award Winners Association is against the mass importation of poultry products

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The Upper West Regional Minister Mahmud Khalid says government will not pay compensation to any chief in the region for land use in the Block Farming Programme

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The Jaman South District Assembly in the Brong Ahafo Region has placed a ban on the possession and use of bush meat

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For hundreds of millions of people in Africa, climate change is not about lowering smoke stack emissions or turning off electric lights. It is about whether or not they will have enough to eat. Agriculture is Africa’s main connection to climate change. This fact must inform the global climate change pact now being hammered out in Copenhagen, if that pact is to address the needs and realize the potential of the world’s second-most populous continent.

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A three-day pork festival aimed at boosting the fortunes of pork farmers and traders ended Saturday, 12 December 2009. Though attendance on the first day was not very good, organisers hoped more people would take advantage of the weekend to patronise the variety of pork products on display, reports The Mail, citing Joy News. The show follows the discovery of the H1N1

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Gold Fields Ghana Ltd., which owns Ghana’s biggest gold mine, Tarkwa, will supply fish to Accra and other cities in Ghana in the next three years. Mr. Peet Van Schalkwyk, Manager of the Tarkwa mine told The Ghana News Agency that the company had started a fish farm

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