ASANKRAGWA, Ghana (Reuters) - No matter how busy he gets, cocoa farmer Simon Afram never keeps his children home from school to work on his farm. Sign up here. "If you don't let a child go to school, ...

ACCRA (Reuters) -Cocoa farmers in the world's second-biggest producer Ghana are expecting a bumper harvest for the upcoming 2025/2026 season, buoyed by improved flowering and pod development, even as ...

(The Conversation) – A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the two countries responsible for 60% of global production. With chocolate ...

ACCRA, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Ghana's Cocobod will use part of a $200 million World Bank loan to rehabilitate plantations destroyed by the cocoa swollen shoot virus, which causes drops in yields and kills ...

Under the deal, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Africa-focused Ophir will acquire a 20% working interest and will drill the deep-water Starfish-1 well as the new operator of the block. The drilling of ...

Ghana’s urban and peri-urban horticulture sector has experienced significant growth, with smallholder farmers playing a pivotal role in this expansion. These farmers, many cultivating plots of less ...

Accra, Feb.27, GNA – Ghana’s cocoa is under siege as illegal small-scale mining, felling of timber and sand mining activities have destroyed 30,000 hectares of cocoa farms nationwide as of December ...

ACCRA, May 27 (Reuters) - Tests on poultry at two farms in Ghana, including one in the capital, Accra, have confirmed the presence of H5N1 avian flu, the country's state research institute said on ...