Category: HORTICULTURE
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Tackle Big Landscape Projects with Equipment Rentals
Imagine terraced garden beds stepping down a slope, a recirculating water feature anchoring your outdoor space or mature specimen trees reshaping your landscape overnight. These ambitious designs promise visual impact and lasting value, yet the real challenge lies in execution. Moving yards of earth, excavating deep foundations and placing trees with massive root balls require…
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Blending Land Care with Self-Care
Introduction Maybe it is the twinkle in the eye, or lightness of step, or dexterity of limbs, I am not entirely sure, but I can usually spot a gardener in a crowd. They seem livelier and more present than the people around them. The telltale is a hue of health. In addition to confidence and…
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Pacific Plant People Recommendations: Bouteloua gracilis ‘Blonde Ambition’
Plant Recommendations by Pacific Plant People highlight climate-resilient, water-wise, and habitat-friendly plants well-suited for the Pacific region. Many recommendations prioritize native species, but some non-natives that thrive in a Mediterranean climate are also featured. For Best Viewing, please use Desktop or Rotate Mobile View to Landscape
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Farmers improvised as fertiliser price goes up
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,…
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6,000 Kwara farmers benefit from FADAMA inputs
About 6,000 crop and livestock farmers in Kwara State have benefited from the first round of the government and World Bank-enabled support. Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq said it was part of measures to strengthen food security and protect vulnerable households from post-COVID-19 challenges. AbdulRazaq, who launched the Kwara FADAMA NG-CARES Result Area 2 inputs and assets…
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Ruto pledges to lower fertilizer prices if elected
Deputy President William Ruto has vowed to lower the prices of farming products if elected in the August 9 General Election. Speaking at a campaign rally in Trans Nzoia on Sunday, Ruto said he would lower fertilizer prices from Sh6,000 to Sh2,500. “There must be access to fertilizers that a farmer can afford. Now I…
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Nigeria empowers 600 youths with skills in greenhouse farming
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has empowered 600 youths with practical skills in greenhouse farming technology, targeted at propelling them to gainfully venture into the agriculture sector. The Mandate Secretary for the FCTA Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat, Malam Abubakar Ibrahim, while inaugurating the program said it is in line with the policy thrust…
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Kenya: Why You Will Not Export Avocados From Next Week
The horticulture regulator has slapped a ban on export of Kenya’s popular avocado varieties to curb harvesting of immature crop by hungry farmers and dealers. Head of Horticulture Directorate Benjamin Tito says the move on Fuerte and Hass varieties, will be effected on November 15 with exceptions given to exporters who have the jumbo type…
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Fruit and Vegetable sector has huge economic prospect for Ghana
The fruits and vegetable industry has huge prospects to widen the country’s foreign exchange earnings, Dr. Maxwell Billah, an entomologist has said. Dr. Billah, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana has therefore called on the government and her development partners to invest by providing adequate research funding into that sector. He said the…
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Hydroponics, the new face of agriculture in Ghana?
Hydroponic farming, a method that involves growing plants in nutrient-rich water, rather than soil, appears to be one effective approach to crop production today. CEO of Ridol Hydroponics, Mr. Richard Twum-Barimah Agyapong, posits that in an era where construction is eating a lot more into our arable lands, there is going to be very limited land…