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The final National Dissemination and Policy workshop on productivity, profitability and sustainability of organic farming in Ghana has taken place in Accra with a call on policy makers to play active and lead roles in the acceptance and expansion agenda for organic agriculture. Organic agriculture is a production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. It relies on ecological process, biodiversity and cycles and also adapts to local conditions rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects. Professor Wole Fatunbi of ProEco Nac-FARA, a partner to the intervention made the call in his remarks to other key partners and stakeholders comprising the media, some regional directors of the department of agriculture, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the academia including the University of Ghana and agro-centered organisations. The workshop was under the auspices of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and its leading partner, ProEco Africa. He noted that, or

  Ghana’s Cabinet has given approval for the release of 43,984,017.70 Ghana Cedis to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in its efforts geared at combating the current outbreaks of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza [HPAI] in the country. The Minister for Food and Agriculture Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, who announced this at a press briefing held this Monday at the ministry, added that the approval came on the back of a proposal his ministry submitted to Cabinet on the subject matter. He said the approval also empowered the ministry to recruit 1,100 veterinary professionals to augment the staff numbers of the Veterinary Services Directorate [VSD] across the country so as to ensure the effective containment of the influenza. Dr. Akoto, Agric Minister making his presention   According to Dr. Akoto, Cabinet additionally directed that 50 percent of the 1,100 professionals representing 550 of them, should be recruited immediately whilst the remaining 50 percent is to be recruited over a

  All the five licensed Rural and Community Banks [RCBs] in the Upper East Region, have met the minimum capitalisation requirement of One Million Ghana Cedis peg as set by the Bank of Ghana [BoG]. This capitalisation ceiling according to the BoG, was to be realized by all banks in this categorization by the end of 2021.  A Cross Section of Shareholders at the AGM   The Managing Director of the ARB Apex Bank Mr. Alex Awuah, made this disclosure in his address at the 30 th Annual General Meeting [AGM] of the Naara Rural Bank held last weekend in Navrongo – capital of the Kassena Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region. He revealed in his address as Guest Speaker to the admiration of the shareholders that, the Naara Rural Bank had not only met the above stated minimum capital requirement but indeed, exceeded the figure. It will be recalled that in year 2015, the BoG made an upward review to the minimum capital requirement of RCBs from 300 Thousand Ghana Cedis to One Million Ghana