2019 July

Updated: Jul 12, 2019 Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), has joined the ongoing campaign on galamsey and urges all illegal small scale miners across the country to stop destroying the environment and take up farming as a profitable business. PFAG, lauds the media and government’s campaign against galamsey, which threatens food security and health. Ms.

Updated: Jul 12, 2019 The membership of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) being majority of small holder farmers in Ghana and leading the Food Sovereignty Platform is disappointed by an attempt by the Minister-designate for agriculture and other members of the Appointment Committee of Parliament to misinform Ghanaians about the true implication of the

Updated: Jul 12, 2019 Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), has inaugurated fertilizer security watchdog committees in all border towns across the country to help curb the menace of smuggling the commodity across neighboring countries. The fertilizer watchdog committees will monitor the movement of subsidized fertilizers across neighboring countries and report such perpetrators to the security

Updated: Jul 12, 2019 – Reports reaching Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) indicate that, bags of subsidised fertilizer are being smuggled out of the country to Burkina Faso and Togo. According to some members of the fertilizer security watchdog committee set up by the Association, the commodity can be seen in some shops located on

Updated: Jul 12, 2019 Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) has rewarded deserving sorghum farmers and aggregators in the Upper East and Upper West Regions at a recognition and appreciation event held in Tamale. Among the award winners were Mr. Anthony Akudago, a member of PFAG in the Garu Tempane District of the Upper East Region, who

Updated: Jul 12, 2019 Reports reaching Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) indicate that, bags of subsidised fertilizer are being smuggled out of the country to Burkina Faso and Togo. According to some members of the fertilizer security watchdog committee set up by the Association, the commodity can be seen in some shops located on the

Updated: Jul 12, 2019 Selected farmers of Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) in Asutuare (Osudoku District in the Greater Accra Region), Ezinlibo (Jomorro District in the Western Region) and Zaari (Garu District in the Upper East Region) were given training on Basic Business Development, Financial literacy, Marketing and Group Dynamics to improve their knowledge in

Updated: Jul 11, 2019 Government says it is working towards providing direct support to the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) in the 2017 national budget to help boost food supply for domestic consumption and for export. The assurance was given by the Deputy Minister of Finance Hon. Ato Forson at the stakeholder consultative meeting on

Updated: Jul 9, 2019 The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has held two separate dialogue meetings with farmers and officials of districts assemblies in the Brong Ahafo and Upper East Regions in Techiman and Paga respectively. The purpose of the meeting was to promote Agro-ecology farming practice through increased budgetary allocation of District Assemblies in

Updated: Jul 9, 2019 Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) members from all the ten regions of Ghana attending a two-day roundtable on farmers’ access to quality inputs, identified investing in quality inputs as key to increasing crop yields. The farmers across the ten regions of Ghana lauded the government flagship programme “Planting for Food and