Articles from the ‘Other Business Stories’ category
Posted by GNA on August 8, 2007 at 12:42 pm in Other Business Stories
More than 107,000 hectares of trees have so far been planted under the Plantation Unit of the Forest Services Division of the Forestry Commission (FC), Mr Dominic Fobih, former Minister of Lands, Forestry and Mines announced at the week-end. He said the entire programme employed 46,000 full time and approximately 1.1 million part-time workers countrywide. [...]
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Posted by Contributor on August 7, 2007 at 3:11 pm in Other Business Stories
Mr. Emmanuel Mante, specialist in natural resource management of the Rural Infrastructure Coordinating Unit, has called on community leaders to help protect natural resources. He was addressing more than 45 stakeholders at a one-day forum on natural resource management organized by the Community Based Rural Development Project (CBRD) of the Ministry of Local Government, Rural [...]
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Posted by Contributor on August 6, 2007 at 1:19 pm in Other Business Stories
Mr. Maurice Jonas Woode, the Presiding Member of the Adansi South District Assembly, at the week called on the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment to review the criteria for disbursing the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF). In an interview with GNA at Akrofuom, Mr Woode explained that some districts had no sources [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:04 pm in Other Business Stories
Cocoa farmers have been advised to co-operate with the division of Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD) of the Ghana Cocoa Board, to eradicate the disease that is threatening the cocoa industry. Dr. George Opoku, Ashanti Regional Manager of the CSSVD, who made the call, expressed worry that some cocoa farmers were strongly opposed to [...]
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Posted by Contributor on August 5, 2007 at 1:28 pm in Other Business Stories
Togbe Kwabla Dapaah II, Divisional Chief of the Mepe Traditional Area, at the weekend asked Government to reactivate the Afife Rice Project, which had remained un-operational for the past six years. “Let me assure Government that our patience will not wear down any longer,” he said at this year’s annual Apernorto Festival of the chiefs [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:03 pm in Other Business Stories
A new water filtration system was on Saturday introduced in Accra to reduce water pollution and provide a naturally pure and safe drinking water in the market. Aquatro International, sole distributors of Aqua Sun water system in the country, combines many different types of water filters and ultraviolet light disinfections units into complete safe drinking [...]
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