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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

Updated: Jul 9, 2019 The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) on behalf of smallholder farmers in Ghana expresses our utmost disappointment with the government for its decision to reject in-kind repayment for input support under the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme. This directive captured in a letter, from the Ministry of Food and

Updated: Jul 9, 2019 At the first bi-annual Board Meeting held on 10th-11th July 2017 at the National Head office of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) in Accra, the Board Members of PFAG were concerned about the state of agriculture in the country. They were particularly concerned about the implementation of the Planting for

Updated: Jul 9, 2019 Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) will join other partners in implementing “The Ghana Strategic Partnership for Evidence Based Advocacy”, a five-year project funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS) and managed by SNV Netherlands Development Organisation. It aims at strengthening capacities of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to advocate for