DOSSIER: Planting for food and jobs

Government’s flagship agricultural programme

• 6,000 farmers trained in good agricultural practices (2018-11-14)
• Akufo-Addo’s able leadership has led to low food prices nationwide – Agriculture Minister (2018-11-14)
• Northern Regional Farmers Association blast NDC, Concerned Farmers (2018-11-13)
• Ellembelle DCE urges farmers to take advantage of PFJ program (2018-10-19)
• After your anger against PFJ fertilizer thievery, what next Your Excellency? (2018-10-14)
• Government to create authority to market 6 tree crops – Agric Minister (2018-10-06)
• ADI advocates $1.5bn livelihood program for farmers (2018-10-05)
• Government must show how it will distribute agricultural funds - Farmers (2018-09-16)
• Over 250,000 farmers biometrically registered under Planting for Food and Jobs (2018-09-11)
• Over 10,000 hectares of farmlands under Planting for Food & Jobs destroyed (2018-09-11)
• Planting for Food and Jobs Programme receives international recognition (2018-09-11)
• President hails Planting for Food and Jobs (2018-09-10)
• Agric Ministry secures $216m loan for Planting for Food and Jobs (2018-09-05)
• We’ll punish saboteurs of Planting for Food & Jobs – Nana Addo (2018-09-04)
• Planting for Food and Jobs programme saved me and my people - Nabdam Chief to Minister (2018-08-26)
• Agric Minister launches University wing of Planting for Food and Jobs programme  (2018-08-26)
• Agric Minister to tour three regions of the North (2018-08-17)
• PWDs in Bawku West register for Planting for Food and Jobs (2018-07-22)
• UW districts receive 11 pick-ups to support agric production (2018-07-22)
• We’ll transform agriculture – Akufo-Addo (2018-07-08)
• Complaints about high maize prices 'absurd' - Deputy Minister (2018-07-04)
• Rearing for Food and Jobs campaign to begin in 2019 – Agric Minister (2018-06-26)
• Tourism Ministry to focus on agribusiness (2018-06-24)
• Government outlines plan to tap into US$86bn global seed market (2018-05-28)
• Cashew Development Board to be established by June this year (2018-05-21)
• One million farmers to benefit from PFJs by 2020 - Akufo-Addo (2018-05-20)
• Agriculture's potential to power economic growth highlighted in African Transformation Report (2018-05-14)
• Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana sensitizes peasant farmers on PFJ (2018-05-14)
• 71,501 Upper East farmers register for Planting for Food and Jobs (2018-05-13)
• Add IT to Planting for Food and Jobs programme - Local Agritech startup to government (2018-04-29)
• Ghana to embark on greenhouse farming (2018-04-29)
• Conditions for supply of subsidized fertilizer revised - Amidu Issahaku (2018-04-28)
• 1 district, 1 warehouse: World Food Programme partners MOFA (2018-04-26)
• 500,000 farmers to benefit from 15,000 metric tonnes of seed for Planting for Food and Jobs (2018-04-08)
• EOCO must investigate Agric Minister - Concerned farmers (2018-04-07)
• Planting for food and jobs policy is practically weak - Research (2018-03-28)
• Cut $2m food import and produce locally – Netherlands Ambassador (2018-03-15)
• Agricultural sector can lead economy with right reforms - World Bank (2018-03-12)
• Don’t ignore livestock production - Researcher (2018-03-03)
• Correct wrongs of Planting for Food and Jobs - Economist (2018-02-08)
• Provide details of 745,000 jobs – Quarshigah to government (2018-02-05)
• No new jobs ‘under planting for food and job’- Inusah Fuseini (2018-02-05)
• Government to pay seed suppliers under ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ programme (2018-02-04)
• Agric Minister justifies 745k jobs under Planting-for-food-and-Jobs policy (2018-02-03)
• Kennedy Agyapong calls Agric Minister a liar (2018-02-02)
• Planting for Foods and Jobs program headed for failure - Peasant famers lament (2018-01-29)
• Agric is key to our development – Bawumia (2017-12-16)
• Companies donate vehicles, motorbikes towards Farmers Day celebration (2017-11-22)
• Peasant farmers angry with government (2017-11-22)
• AfDB considers proposal to support Planting for Food and Jobs (2017-11-18)
• 4,000 bags of fertilizer for Planting for Food and Jobs smuggled (2017-11-10)
• Agric ministry moves in to revive Ghana’s onion industry (2017-11-08)
• Government urged to engage rural banks in executing agricultural revitalisation agenda (2017-11-01)
• Government to increase soya, maize production to boost poultry industry (2017-10-31)
• Asiedu Nketia endorses 'Planting For Food And Jobs' (2017-10-19)
• Agric trainees charge government to set up State farms under ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ (2017-10-19)
• I won’t ignore Agric Sector – Akufo-Addo (2017-10-16)
• Agriculture is my strategy to change lives - Akufo-Addo (2017-10-15)