VegetablesThe Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Ghana's CSIR-Crops Research Institute have signed a five-year MoU on joint research and technology transfer, beginning with high-yielding tomato lines and extending to cassava and yam processing and cold-chain work.
AgrotechA study in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems finds that in Ghana's Ashanti and Bono regions younger men use smartphones and online farm advice, while older women rely on basic phones, radio and voice services because of literacy, language, cost and social norms.
About 40 per cent of the second-hand clothing that reaches Ghana each week from the US, Europe and Australia is unusable; it ends up in drains and dumps, washes onto the beaches and breaks into microplastics.
VegetablesResearchers matched DNA markers with two years of field data for 81 okra accessions from ten countries, including Bangladesh and India, and named lines that combine earlier flowering with higher yield.
Market ManagementCote d'Ivoire set its 2026/27 main-crop price at 1,200 CFA francs a kilo, about $2.07 and 57% below last season, while Ghana set about $3.65 a kilo.
A Ghanaian-British research team is using electrical resistivity tomography on maize plots at CSIR-CRI to see how crop residues and cover crops change the way water moves and is stored in the soil.
The national framework aims to improve food and nutrition security for close to three million people by 2030 and to support the creation of more than 2.6 million jobs by 2035.
