Monthly round-up of news stories about agricultural investment in Ghana, brought to you by GG Agriculture

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2013
GG Agriculture
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5/27/2013
Ghana Investment Review
May 2013

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investment company solely investing in agriculture and
farmland in emerging markets such as the Ukraine and
Ghana. By producing wheat, chia and other crops in a low
cost environment and selling them on the world-wide
market, we aim to provide our investors sustainable
returns for distribution as annual dividends.
VP of Ghana says agriculture should be
attractive to investors
Vice-President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur says the government will promote the
agricultural sector to make it attractive
and profitable for Ghanaians and
investors.
"Agriculture should be seen as a
business," he said, adding that the
government continued to promote the
sector to make it profitable for operators
along the production chain.
With the government's objective of
attracting more participation in the
agricultural sector, he said, a number of
initiatives and incentives had been developed to motivate people and firms in the
sector. Espousing the government’s vision for agriculture at the World Economic
Forum on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, the Vice-President said the agricultural
sector remained critical for Ghana’s economic growth.
In view of the strategic importance of the sector, he said, the government had taken
various measures to facilitate its transformation. Vice-President Amissah-Arthur
assured participants in the forum of the Ghana government's commitment to promote
effective agric-business towards exploring the huge potential of the sector and urged
investors to take advantage of the prospects.
"Ghana is ready to do business with the world to unlock the potential of the
agricultural sector," he emphasised.
Read more: www.ghanaweb.com

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Ghana Farmers Quadruple Food
Production
Barring any unforseen developments, the Afram Plains will soon give full meaning to
its accolade of Ghana's major food basket.
A tour of the two farming districts of Kwahu Afram Plains North and Kwahu Afrarm
Plains South depicted that farmers there are now able to cultivate four times bigger
acreages than they did previously, and their output per acre has more than
quadrupled, thanks to such simple-but-effective technologies as irrigation pumps,
improved seeds and animal breeds.
Read the full story: http://allafrica.com
Ghana Association of Farmers and
Fishermen inaugurates new branch
The Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen inaugurated its new branch
at Tsopoli in the Dangbe West District of the
Greater Accra Region to strengthen its
district structures.
The new branch, as part of its mandate, is
to register farmers and fishermen in the
area to enable the National secretariat to
conduct the needed assessment to address
some of their challenges.
Full story: www.ghanabusinessnews.com
700,000 farmers in Ghana to benefit
from new crop technologies
About 700,000 farmers in Ghana are to benefit from the introduction of improved new
varieties of cereal and tuber crops developed by research scientists in the sub-region
during the first phase of the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme
(WAAPP).

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The Scientists developed 31 new technologies for the production of cassava, yam, coco
yam, maize and other cereals, which when adopted for cultivation by the farmers
would increase their yields by about 15 per cent.
Further reading: www.ghanabusinessnews.com
New fertilizer depot under construction
at Pankese
A 6000 metric ton capacity fertilizer depot is being constructed by Sakant Enterprise
Limited, a private Agro-chemical distributor in the country, at Pankese near Nkawkaw.
The facility which is at the roofing stage is estimated to cost GH¢ 200,000 when
completed. It is expected to contain 100,000 bags of fertilizers to be distributed to
farmers in eight districts in the Akyem, Kwahu and the Afram-Plains areas.
As part of measures to sustain productivity in Ghana, farmers will be educated on the
appropriate application of the fertilizer to get the required yields.
Read more: www.ghanabusinessnews.com
PFAG/SEND-Ghana Launch Agriculture
Project
A two-year project aimed at enhancing
investment in agriculture extension
services, towards the attainment of
goals of the Comprehensive Africa
Agriculture Development Programme
in Ghana, was launched in Accra
recently.
The project, jointly launched by the
Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana
(PFAG) and SEND-Ghana, a non-
governmental organisation, is also to ensure the realisation of the goals of the
Programme and the medium term agricultural sector investment plan.
Source: www.ghana.gov.gh

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transport and sell the crop. It was established in June 2012 and has
commenced the farming of chia crops on its Ghana Farming Land.
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