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By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- LIBERIA, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Country Representative – Njie accepts the MOU from Kaspers – EU Head for Cooperation for Implementation. The European Union (EU) Delegation to Liberia has gave two million Euro to rejuvenate extension services and research for smallholder farmers throughout Liberia as a way to guarantee sustainable agriculture and food and...

BY ANIN AGYEI- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, GHANA- COCOA FARMERS across the country have been advised to trade with the Produce Buying Company (PBC), the leading cocoa buying company in the country to enjoy the services of a new pension scheme instituted by the government of Ghana. According to the Human Resource Manager in charge of the Central Region’s PBC, Ms. Andrea Franz, the only means to sustain the Company was for the farmers to continually patronize its...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- ETHIOPIA, African Continental Free Trade Area agreement (AfCFTA) will establish the world’s largest free trade area, joining an integrated market of 1.3 billion consumers with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) roughly calculated at $3.4 trillion. Objectively, is to actualize a continent-wide single market for goods and services with free movement of business, persons and investments. The...

BY ANIN AGYEI- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, GHANA- CONSUMER Price Index (CPI), which measures the change over time in the general price level of goods and services that households acquire for the purposes of consumption, in the month of December 2019 went down to 7.9%. Briefing the press in Accra, Government Statistician of the Ghana Statistical Service, Professor Samuel K Annim, said the year-on-year inflation rate as measured by CPI dropped to 0.3 percentage point...