PFAG

Date Issued: September 13,2018 The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), the Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG) and the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) are farmer-based organisations with many years of participation and experience in agricultural production in Ghana. We observe with sadness like many Ghanaians do, the perennial flooding in the country especially in

Date Issued: August 27, 2018 The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) is calling on the government to make budgetary allocations to local seed growers in the annual budget to strengthen local seed production. The Association’s call is included in a nine-point communiqué issued after an inception workshop at the Noguchi Memorial Institute of the

Date Issued: Aug 21,2018 The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU), Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD) and Centre for Development Research and Agro-Innovation (CEDRAI) and other CSOs are disappointed with the extent to which the largest agro-poisonous chemical and seed company, “Monsanto” has managed to brainwash some

Updated: Aug 17, 2018 The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana is beginning the implementation of a programme to monitor government flagship agricultural projects. The farmer group intends to monitor the famous Planting for Food and Jobs, One Village One Dam and the One district One Factory projects and to assess how they perform. Speaking to Joy

Date Issued: Aug 7,2018 Ghana has over the last few years been battling with conflicts between herdsmen and crop farmers which sometimes result in fatalities on both sides. The conflict is primarily about resource use, damage to crops and water bodies by cattle, non-existence of regulated transhumant corridors and crop farming along the valleys of

Updated: Aug 7, 2018 Dr. Kofi Boa of Centre for No-Till Agriculture  has called for a new innovation to ensure the structural stability of soils to sustain agroecology in Ghana and other parts of Africa. Speaking at a workshop organised for about 35 farmers who form the Agroecology Task Force selected from the regions of the

Date issued: August 1, 2018 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

Updated: Jul 30, 2018 Governments’ commitment in the 2018 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to structurally transform the economy is welcome news to Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana. Governments’ commitment in the 2018 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to structurally transform the economy is welcome news to Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana. Aside the implementation of

Updated: Jul 30, 2018 The state of Ghana seed and fertilizer industry.  Access and utilization of high-quality inputs (seeds and fertilizer) are a major determinant of successful crop farming and prerequisite to the success of the government flagship agricultural programme “Planting for Food and Jobs”. Unfortunately, the seed industry in Ghana continues to face many challenges.

Updated: Jul 27, 2018 Peasant farmers have called on Parliament to undertake proper consultation before passing the Plant Breeders Bill in order to ensure that the interests of farmers are considered. Peasant farmers have called on Parliament to undertake proper consultation before passing the Plant Breeders Bill in order to ensure that the interests of farmers