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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 nutrition security. This was disclosed, when the Government of Liberia via the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) approved a Memorandum of Understanding on January 14th 2020, at the Ministerial Complex in Congo Town, Monrovia. This project has clocked three has the...

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 services. Ms. Franz made the call in the Central Region during her New Year message to cocoa farmers across the country.. She said the PBC, with almost 80% shares by government, had put in place comprehensive mechanisms that would cater well for the welfare of cocoa farmers. Ms. Franz stated that the farmers could enjoy the...

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 AfCFTA envisages to unfold intra-African trade and intensify regional integration by successively eliminating tariffs on 90% of product categories. Subtracting of such trade barriers assures to not only enhance efficiency, improve competition, and incentivize development of strategic solutions to local challenges through...

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 from the 8.2% recorded in November 2019. For the food and non-alcoholic beverages group, the Statistician pointed out that the year -on -year inflation rate recorded 7.2%, which is 1.2 percentage points lower than the 8.4% recorded in November 2019. “Between November 2019 and December 2019 the price level of Food and...