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Graphic Online BY: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah 30.5k Shares 705 The African Cashew Alliance (ACA) has called on African governments to provide an enabling policy environment conducive for business to help position African cashew producers among the leaders in cashew production in the world. This, ACA believes, is critical to help African countries involved in the cashew industry, fully take advantage of the booming market for cashew in Europe and the USA. The Managing Director of ACA, Mr Ernest Mintah, while acknowledging the development in Ghana’s cashew sector with the inauguration of the Tree...

  Parts of southern and eastern Saskatchewan currently under a severe drought will need continuous light rain over several days to recharge the soil, according to farmers and agricultural experts.   Saskatchewan Agriculture regular reports on soil moisture conditions in its weekly crop report through the growing season. Southern and easter regions of Saskatchewan wer very low on on moisture at the end of the last growing season.   The lack of snow over the winter adds to the dry conditions faced by farmers this spring.   Todd Lewis of the Agricultual Producers Association ...

Burger Week incorporated the importance of Canadian agriculture and homegrown ingredients, but will involve seven local restaurants to emphasize the importance of shopping and eating locally to support businesses. The seven restaurants involved were the Red Barn, the Witch’s Brew, Dairy Queen, TJ’s Pizza, Cork & Bone Bistro, Fleming Windsor, and the Crate House. Each of the seven restaurants will come up with a burger that only uses Canadian ingredients. Sharpe’s Branch Manager Hayley Senkowski says when Sharpe’s realized Ag Day wouldn’t be able to be celebrated in the same way a...

  The usage of fertiliser under the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) initiative increased significantly from 121,000 tonnes in 2016 to over 400,000 tonnes in 2019. The national fertiliser use per hectare also increased from an average of eight kilogrammes (kg) per hectare in 2017 to an average of 20kg per hectare in 2019. This means the country is getting closer to meeting the international standard of fertiliser usage of 50kg per hectare. Agricultural experts believe the implementation of a fertilizer expansion programme will enable Ghana to achieve that objective and thereby boost food sec...