• Ministry of Food And Agric. Meets The Press

    Ghana now requires a conscious and sustained enabling environment to effectively link agriculture to industry through enhanced agribusiness.
    In consonance with this, the Ministry is developing product-specific value chains for the sector.

    Agribusiness development through internal and external partnerships is central to the
  • Ghana Holds Trade Agreement Meeting with Turkey

    A Ghanaian delegation led by Honourable Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture met with a delegation from the Turkish government headed by H.E Prof. Recep Akdağ, Minister of Health at the Third Session of the Ghana-Turkey Joint Trade and Economic Committee Meeting in Ankara and Erzurum, Turkey from February 27 –March 2, 2012.

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  • Government Announce Subsidized Outboard Motor Price For 2012 Fishing Season

    Government has officially announced the sale of Outboard Motors imported into the country by the Agricultural Development Bank. The new price for a 40 HP Outboard motor in 2012 is GH¢4,900.00 from GH¢7,500.00 and it would be sold to fishermen through the Landing Beach Committees on a cash and carry financial arrangement to ensure that genuine fishermen benefit.

  • Hon. Kwesi Ahwoi Commissions New Building For ATLAFCO Headquarters In Rabat, Morocco

    A colourful ceremony was held on 20th March, 2012 in Rabat, Morocco to commission a new building for use as the Secretariat of the Ministerial Conference on Fisheries Cooperation among African Countries Bordering the Atlantic Ocean (ATLAFCO). The ceremony marked another milestone in the history of ATLAFCO since for the first time in the establishment of ATLAFCO in.

  • Patrol Boats For Fisheries Surveillance

    The President, H. E. Prof. Evans Atta Mills commissioned four (4) new patrols on 20th February 2012 for the Ghana Navy at the Sekondi Naval Base.

    The acquisition and commissioning of the four (4) new patrol boats, the first of its kind in the past 32 years is fulfillment of the President's promise on assumption of office to provide patrol boats for the Ghana Navy for monitoring, control and surveillance operation in the fishery waters of Ghana.

  • Ghana's Oil Palm Sector
    •Ghana's first international commercial trade in oil palm took place in 1820. Starting from the wild palm harvesting, oil palm evolved into an agricultural crop and plantations were established by 1850.
  • Mofa And PEF Organise Agribusiness Roundtable Forum

    The Ministry of Food and Agriculture in collaboration with the Private Enterprise Foundation, (PEF), have organized a round table forum in Accra to discuss Agricultural Investment in Ghana, to introduce Ghana's participation in the "Grow Africa Project". A project that seeks to stimulate greater private sector investments through concrete plans