23+ hour, 38+ min ago   (835+ words) When President John Dramani Mahama launched the NkokoNkitinkiti Household and Backyard Poultry Production Initiative in Kumasi in November 2025, the vision was compelling. Three million birds were distributed across the country's 276 constituencies, with beneficiaries receiving fifty chicks each, along with feed…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (201+ words) The successful implementation of the first phase of the government's flagship 'Nkoko Nkitinkiti' Programme has set the stage for the rollout of its second and more transformative phase—the commercialisation of Ghana's poultry industry, the Minister for Food and Agriculture…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (495+ words) Senior Research Scientist at the Animal Research Institute of the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-ARI), Vida Lamptey, has urged stakeholders in the poultry sector to adopt non-conventional feed ingredients and agro-industrial by-products. That, she said, would reduce feed…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (518+ words) Stakeholders in Ghana’s agriculture sector have called for a bold, practical, and investment-driven National Poultry Master Plan to transform the industry and reduce the country’s heavy reliance on imports. Speaking at the Ghana Poultry Master Plan Stakeholders’ Dialogue (Southern Zone)…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (541+ words) Stakeholders in the agricultural sector have called for a bold, practical, and investment-driven national poultry master plan to transform the industry and reduce the country’s heavy reliance on imports. Speaking at the Southern Zone edition of the Ghana Poultry Master…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (532+ words) The European Union (EU) has donated 150,000 fully vaccinated poultry birds, along with feed and essential veterinary medicines, to 3,000 farmers across six districts in the Savannah, Upper East and North East Regions. The intervention seeks to boost the poultry sector, reduce…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (629+ words) EXciTEMENT and renewed hope filled the air at Dompoase in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region as dozens of residents gathered to receive broiler chickens under the government’s Nkoko Nketenkete initiative last week Tuesday to commence their poultry…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (444+ words) The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Mr Eric Opoku, has said he was unaware of a separate government poultry programme being implemented under another ministry and will engage his colleague to seek clarification and ensure alignment. Mr Opoku indicated that…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (465+ words) The Tema Metropolitan Assembly has distributed chicks to 300 registered farmers in the first phase of the Nkokɔ Nkitinkiti Programme, with each beneficiary receiving between 30 and 40 birds under the government’s flagship poultry revitalisation initiative. The distribution exercise forms part of a…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago   (550+ words) Stakeholders in the poultry value chain last Tuesday converged on Tamale, the Northern Regional capital, to deliberate on developing a strategic master plan to transform and strengthen the country’s poultry sector. The proposed plan is expected to serve as a…...