Tag Archive: Kwesi Ahwoi

Feb 11

MOFA To Be In Control of Food Security Issues

Millennium Challenge AccountStatistics Research and Information Directorate of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) will soon maintain a system for a periodic performance audit which will ensure food security information including early warning information on crops, livestock and the fisheries sub-sectors.

Dec 14

Food Minister Bites the Dust – Ghana

In an interesting development Hon. Kwesi Ahwoi, the Minister of Food and Agriculture in Ghana, was made to bite the dust when he was defeated by Mrs. Queenster Pokuah Sawyer, a real estate developer in the ruling party’s parliamentary primary for the Agona East Constituency.

Aug 27

Youth in Agric Programme Contributing to Food Security

Youth in Agriculture Programme (YIAP) is a Government?s agricultural sector initiative with the objective of motivating the youth, to accept and appreciate agricultural production as a commercial venture, thereby taking up farming as a life time vocation.

Aug 21

Stakeholders must rethink agric funding in Ghana – Agric Minister

Accra, August 19, GNA – Mr Kwesi Ahwoi Minister for Food and Agriculture on Thursday said agric stakeholders must rethink means of funding agriculture as difficulties of loan recovery from farmers mounted up.

Aug 20

Research should be the bedrock of Ghana’s agriculture – Kwesi Ahwoi

Accra, Aug.20, GNA – Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) on Friday re-emphasized the need for the country to make research the bedrock of its agricultural production.  

Apr 30

Embrace Agric revolution; dump the cutlass and hoe – Minister

Accra, April 30, GNA – Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture, said Ghana can surely revolutionalise agriculture when farmers transform subsistence farming into modern agriculture.

Oct 18

Global consultations on cassava as bio-fuel open

Accra, Oct. 18, GNA – Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, Minister of Food and Agriculture, on Monday noted that the commercial cultivation of cassava as an alternative source of bio-energy, would not compromise Ghana’s agricultural lands or threaten its food security.