Nucleus Farmer News Today

Farmers have asked the Government to develop a common pricing regime for cereals, especially maize, rice and soybean. They said the pricing regime should be accompanied by quality and quantity standards to ensure that both farmer and aggregators are not shortchanged. What, they said would offer the Government another stream…

705 One hundred members of the Irrigation Company of the Upper Region (ICOUR) Women Farmers Association based in the Tono Irrigation area in the Upper East Region have paid back all the credit facilities they received from the Akuafo Nketewa Company Limited, a subsidiary of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG). The beneficiary women farmers were expected to pay back over GH¢ 20,000 worth of NPK fertilizers they were provided with by the Company in the form of loans to support their ...