Ghana Export Promotion Authority Educate Exporters, Farmers On Export Trade Investments
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) through its export school on Thursday began a two-day intensive training in export marketing for exporters, cooperative farmers, smock and basket weavers from various districts in the Upper East Region. The training which is...
Ghana Ripe For Fresh Fruits, Vegetable Production
Ghana’s vast expanse of arable land and favorable weather positions the country as a potential producer and processor of fresh fruits and vegetables on a large scale. Mr Sunny George Verghese, Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Olam International,...
Butternut Squash – A New Export Product From Ghana
The Export Development and Investment Fund (EDIF) has introduced butternut squash, a fruit as a new export product from Ghana. Butternut, belongs to a group of crops collectively called cucurbit (a member of the gourd family, which includes pumpkin, melon, and...
Africa – The Next Growth Market
Over the past decade, Africa’s real GDP grew by 4.7% a year, on average—twice the pace of its growth in the 1980s and 1990s. The surge cut across nations and sectors. By 2009, Africa’s collective GDP of $1.6 trillion was roughly equal to Brazil’s or Russia’s. The...
Data overhaul shows Ghana’s economy 60% bigger
Ghana leapt into the world ranking of middle-income countries on Friday with a new measure of its economy that will add over 60 percent to its output figure by better reflecting recent growth areas such as mobile telephony. The long-awaited move, which comes just...
Freedom House Ranked Ghana as “Free”
Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization that supports the expansion of freedom around the world Ranked Ghana as "Free". Ghana received a 1 (on a scale of 1 to 7, with 7 as the lowest) for political rights and a 2 for civil liberties. It is one of only 10...