Category: AGRI-CHEM

Two motor tricycles carrying 84 bags of NPK fertilizers have been seized by officials of the Ghana Immigration Service in the Upper West Region. This happened at Beat Four (04), a known unapproved route bordering neighbouring Burkina Faso at about 13:50 GMT on Thursday, August 6, 2020. The fertilizers, suspected to be products from the…

The Head of Programs and Advocacy for the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has called on government to direct banks to ensure full compliance in their provision of credit facilities for rice farmers. According to Charles Nyaaba, government must urgently also furnish them with rice inputs like seeds and fertilizers to aid them in…

Malta grown potatoes yesterday started a two-month-long journey to Namibia to help address the food crisis in the African state, Times Malta, the English daily reported on Saturday. The Island of Malta is a small independent nation state located in the centre of the Mediterranean in Europe; it is the European Union’s smallest member state. According to the…

Some six districts in the Upper East Region have been restrained from dealing with sales and distribution of subsidized fertilizer to farmers due to incessant reported cases of smuggling. According to the Regional Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), Francis Ennor, only nine districts could provide the services to farmers during the…

EuroChem Group AG has announces sales of US$1.57 billion for 1Q20, a 3% increase y/y. The company has said it is monitoring the coronavirus situation closely. It has implemented a number of preventative risk management measures across all functions (production, logistics, supply chain, markets, staff, IT, and finance) to reduce the probability of adverse effects…

Mary Rigo has been a spinach and tomato farmer for the past decade a few minute’s drive from here in Kirinyaga county, where she owns a two-acre farm about one hundred kilometres (just over 60 miles) northwest of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. Rigo did not not use fertilisers, relying instead on whatever fertility the land could…

Enugu State Agricultural Development Programme (ENADEP) and the farmers’ associations in the state have strategised ways to boost agricultural production in the state. Programme Manager of ENADEP, Dr Ogbonna Onyeisi, disclosed this in an interactive session with the farmers at the agency’s headquarter, Friday in Enugu. Onyeisi said it was important for ENEDEP to have…

To enhance food security across the country, Yara Ghana is supporting farmers, particularly smallholders, with USD20 million worth of fertilisers. The farmers will be provided with free bags of the fertiliser in a package, about 18,000 metric tonnes, to ensure that they had enough to sustain food production in the country. Mr Danquah Addo-Yobo, the…

1,500 small holder farmers in Katsina State have received various farming inputs from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. While distributing the inputs to the farmers at the Federal Secretariat Katsina, the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Mohammed Mahmood said the gesture was aimed boosting agricultural productivity and food security in the country. The…

Mr Yahya Iddrisu, the 2012 Tano North District Best Farmer in the Ahafo Region, says the increase in chemical fertiliser prices is forcing many farmers to switch to chicken droppings to fertilise their farmlands. He said in the face of the growing costs and shortages of subsidised fertiliser, some smallholder farmers were downsizing their farmlands,…