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Dumelo Reports 1. 7 Million Poultry Distributed, Gh300 Million Grain Pledge
5+ hour, 45+ min ago (246+ words) Ghana has distributed 1. 7 million birds under the Nkoko Nkitinkiti programme and committed GHS300 million to guarantee market access for grain farmers, Deputy Minister John Dumelo told Parliament. On the grains side, the Ghana Buffer Stock Company has registered 45 Licensed Buying Companies…...
Poultry Initiative Launched In South Tongu
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (370+ words) The District Chief Executive for South Tongu, Hon. Victoria Dzeklo, has urged beneficiaries of the government's flagship Nkoko Nkitinkiti initiative, popularly known as the Koklovi programme, to properly care for and nurture the birds they have received in order to…...
Ghana's Egg Market Buckles Under Foreign Farm Pressure
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (312+ words) A surge of large-scale, foreign-backed poultry farms is flooding Ghana's egg market, triggering a domestic glut that is destroying the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and exposing deep policy gaps in how the sector manages large-scale investment inflows. The Ghana National…...
Ghana's Poultry Master Plan Faces a Harder Test Than Ambition
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (546+ words) News Ghana Ghana's proposed National Poultry Master Plan carries ambitious language about agro-industrial transformation, import substitution and job creation. But before any of that can happen, the government must confront a more immediate problem: a sector caught in contradictions that…...
Ghana Poultry Plan Targets Investors to End Import Drain
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (306+ words) Ghana's push to revive its struggling poultry sector is taking on a sharper investment dimension, with Daniel Fahene Acquaye, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Agri-Impact Group, making the case that the industry's chronic import dependence can be reversed if the…...
Egg Glut Worsens as Traders Hold Retail Prices High, GAPFA Warns
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (283+ words) Ghana's egg glut is deepening not just because supply exceeds demand, but because a persistent gap between declining farm-gate prices and inflated retail prices is suppressing consumer purchases and accelerating spoilage losses, the Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association (GAPFA) has…...
Northern Ghana's Guinea Fowl Bazaar Makes Its Accra Debut
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (262+ words) Accra residents will have the chance to experience northern Ghanaian food, crafts, and culture without leaving the city this weekend, as the Guinea Fowl Bazaar makes its first-ever appearance in the capital on May 1 and 2, 2026. The event, themed "Experience the…...
Ghana Eyes Day-Old Chick Exports as West Africa Demand Grows
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (449+ words) News Ghana Ghana's poultry sector is beginning to attract attention as a potential regional supplier of day-old chicks, as growing demand from neighbouring countries creates an export opportunity that industry stakeholders say could complement the government's drive to rebuild domestic…...
Feed Costs and Market Gluts Squeeze Ghana's Poultry Farmers
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (263+ words) Ghana's poultry industry is caught in a double bind that industry players warn could reverse years of progress in domestic production: soaring feed costs are eroding margins from one direction, while periodic market oversupply is hammering prices from the other....
From 2, 000 to 8, 300 Birds: How One Ghana Farm Rebuilt on Af DB Credit
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (407+ words) A poultry farm in Ghana's Eastern Region has quadrupled its bird stock and tripled its workforce after accessing a government-backed credit facility, offering a concrete example of what targeted financial intervention can deliver for small agribusinesses operating outside the main…...