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  The Savannah Agriculture Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI), Manga Station, has introduced farmers in the Upper East Region to new improved agricultural technologies to increase productivity and quality. At a technology park established at Manga with support from Agriculture Manufacturing Group (AMG) Limited, a local fertilizer production and distribution company, about 180 farmers from six districts including; Bawku Municipal, Bawku West, Tempane, Garu, Binduri and Pusiga Districts were introduced to new improved crop varieties and proven ...

705 Three COVID-19 related deaths have been recorded in two municipalities in the Upper East Region this year. Two of the deaths were captured in the region's COVID-19 Situational Report of January 14, 2021 while the other death occurred last Friday, January 15, 2021 and is expected to be captured in the next report this week. The report indicated that two of the deaths - a 63-year-old woman and a 55-year -old man -  were recorded in the Bolgatanga and Kassena Nankana Municipalities, while the third victim, a man in his 30s, was a General Nurse at the Paediatric Unit of the Navrongo War Memo...

Stakeholders in Bongo pledge to help fight teenage pregnancy and SGBV Stakeholders in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region have pledged their commitment to help fight against teenage pregnancy, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) and child marriage in the district. The stakeholders who were made up of the heads of the various units at the Bongo district assembly made the commitments when the Youth Harvest Foundation Ghana (YHFG), a youth-focused Non-Governmental Organization engaged them on gender equality, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) and Gender-Based Violence...

+ The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana(PFAG) with support from Oxfam, Ghana, has presented food items and Personal Protective Equipment(PPEs) worth GH¢100,000 to about 400 needy small holder farmers in the Upper East and North East Regions. The food items made up of rice and cooking oil were distributed to the beneficiary farmers in the Bolgatanga and Kassena Nankana Municipalities, Bongo, Talensi, Nabdam, Kassena Nankana West, Binduri and Bawku West districts in Upper East Region and Mamprugu Moagduri in the North East Region. COVID-19 and Floods The National President of the PFAG, Mr A...