Category: Agri Business

Explainer-How did Ivory Coast and Ghana’s cocoa sales crisis come about?

Mr Mohammed

By Reuters Commodities First Published 02/26/2026, 11:00 AM,Updated 02/26/2026, 11:48 AM By May Angel The producers of half the world’s cocoa – Ivory Coast and Ghana – have struggled to sell beans and pay farmers this year due to ample global harvests, lower cocoa prices and falling demand from chocolate makers for the ingredient. Why did the two countries fare worse than rival producers and what are they doing to address the problem? HOW DID WE GET HERE? Cocoa is not freely traded in Ivory Coast and Ghana. Rather, the…

Boosting Dagbon’s emerging Organic Farming Paradigm…Ntiligira Enterprise Leads the Charge

Mr Mohammed

By: Mohammed A.Abu Dagbon’s Maiden Convention and Home Coming event has since taken off with debates in Tamale and Yendi that had preceded the official launch in Tamale and now scheduled to be rounded off on December, 27, with a grand durbar in Yendi, the seat of Kingship. One of the main objectives being to institutionalize yearly convergence of Dagbamba to among other things discuss the development agenda of Dagbon is no doubt going to be one of the major takeaways. Dagbon,Northern region’s, local economy has been agrarian driven for…

All set for Bindira Chugu(Traditional Culinary Art Festival) 2025

Mr Mohammed

Report: Mohammed A.Abu The second edition of Bidira Chugu (culinary art festival) and exhibition is due shortly to take off in Ghana’s Northern Regional capital of Tamale. This year’s edition is scheduled to take place from October 17th and 18th,2025 under the theme, “Reclaiming Our Food, Restoring Our Identity,” focusing on indigenous foods and their role in a sustainable future. Symposium and Exhibition For the symposium component of the event, one hundred and fifty (150) participants, 6 speakers, and 20 exhibitors are expected.  Partners The key partners to the event…

Singapore, Ghana to deepen green and agribusiness partnership.

Mr Mohammed

Ghana and Singapore on Wednesday discussed cooperation in sustainable development and value-added agriculture, anchoring their talks around a pioneering carbon markets agreement and plans to scale agro-processing and jobs in Ghana. Speaking during bilateral talks with President John Dramani Mahama in Singapore, President Tharman Shanmugaratnam said, “the first Asian country to sign the implementation of a carbon credit agreement with Ghana and the first in Africa, is Singapore,” casting the deal as a platform to channel investment into low-carbon growth. He added that “other areas of interest are agribusiness, downstream…

Setting the Agenda for Clean Energy in Agriculture

Mr Mohammed

Policymakers, private-sector leaders, development partners, and farmer cooperatives gathered to discuss not just the deployment of solar technologies, but the building of ecosystems that make productive use of solar energy (PUSE) sustainable. Organized by the Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) in collaboration with Heifer International Uganda and WWF Tanzania, the event aimed to strengthen cross-country collaboration for energy-smart agricultural systems. Key Stakeholder Insights Opening the conference, KCIC CEO Joseph Murabula emphasized that unlocking PUSE’s potential requires deliberate ecosystem-building. Since the March 2025 launch of DREEM Hub Kenya, 23 cooperatives and…

Nigerian scientists await return of Egusi seeds sent to space

Mr Mohammed

First Published,August 8, 2025,AFP by Nicholas ROLL edited by Alexander Pol If Earthlings are ever going to colonize Mars, they won’t be able to do so on an empty stomach—and Temidayo Oniosun thinks a helping of Egusi soup, a Nigerian staple, might just hit the spot. Space in Africa, the Lagos-based firm Oniosun founded, is expecting its Egusi melon seeds to splash down in the Pacific Ocean Saturday—fresh from a trip to the International Space Station. Once Earthside, experiments will begin on what is being hailed as the first food native…

Nigeria: African Development Bank to join groundbreaking ceremony of Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone in Oyo State

Mr Mohammed

ABUJA, Nigeria, August 1, 2025/ — The Federal Government of Nigeria and the Oyo State Government will be joined by the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Oyo State Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ). Headlining the ceremony, to be held 2 August 2025 in Ijaiye, Akinyele Local Government Area, will be Nigeria’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima, African Development Bank Group head, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, and Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, alongside senior government officials, development partners, and private sector leaders. The SAPZ Programme is…

BRICS countries back grain exchange idea, Russia says

Mr Mohammed

The BRICS group of countries have supported an initiative to set up a grain exchange, Russian Minister of Agriculture Oksana Lut said on Friday. The exchange would allow buyers to purchase directly from producers and has been backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of a BRICS summit to be held in Russia in October. “We will work together with our colleagues on creation and development of this platform and the development of the possibility of settlements in national currencies of the BRICS countries,” Lut said after a meeting of…

‘Nigeria spends $600m annually on palm oil importation’

Mr Mohammed

The National Palm Produce Association of Nigeria (NPPAN) has revealed that Nigeria spends $600 million annually on  palm oil oil importation. This was stated by Mr Alphonsus Inyang, the National President of the association, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja. Inyang criticised these expenses as detrimental to national development, suggesting that the funds could be better utilised within the economy if the  palm oil oil sub-sector received adequate attention from successive governments He highlighted Nigeria’s historical self-sufficiency in palm oil production, contrasting it with the current situation where…

Factoring Urban Gardening into African’s Built Environment

Mr Mohammed

…. As ACEACFMS 2023 holds in Accra Story: Mohammed Abu Science, Technical and Mathematics (STEM) students from the Kumasi Academy Senior High School, in Ghana’s Ashanti Region excited participants with a great presentation on the science of urban gardening and vertical farming concept at the. maiden event of the African Continental Sustainable Built Environment Summit(ACEACFMS)held at East Legion in country’s capital of Accra, on Thursday, December, 14. The science based urban gardening concept combines science and innovation that seeks to offer opportunity especially for vegetable crop production under an urban…