Ghana Aims for Poultry Self-Sufficiency by 2012
GHANA - The 2010 Budget Statement highlights the government's support for the poultry industry.

B/A Poultry Farmers Asked to Harmonise Resources
GHANA - Poultry farmers in Brong-Ahafo have been advised to harmonise their resources to ensure price uniformity of their products.

Ghana's Farmers Learn How to Keep Birds Healthy
GHANA - Poultry farmers attend a seminar last week on avoiding poultry diseases.

Ghana's Animal Research Launches New Chicken Breed
GHANA - Animal Research Institute (ARI) of the CSIR has introduced a new breed of chicken, combining the characteristics of fast growth with adaptation to the harsh environmental conditions, in order to reduce the country's dependence on imported breeding...

Ghana's Farmers Need Govt Help over Feed Prices
GHANA - One of the country's leading farmers says that banning poultry imports will not solve the problems of local producers. They need help to combat high feed prices.

Ghanaian Poultry Farmers Like Yellow Corn
GHANA - Yellow maize in being imported from the US to meet the demand from the poultry industry. Supplies of home-grown and Argentinean maize have been hit by bad weather.

Farmers Demand Clear Ag Policies
GHANA - At a workshop this week, industry representatives urged politicians to develop clear strategies to help the country achieve the Millennium Development Goal to end poverty in the country.

Farmers Urged to Raise Hygiene Standards
GHANA - National Director of the Veterinary Services has urged the poultry industry to adopt improved hygiene practices to prevent the outbreak of avian flu and other poultry diseases.

Meriden Animal Health Limited appoints a new distributor in Ghana
ghana - Meriden Animal Health Limited recently appointed Bio Trade Limited based in Accra as their distributor for their wide range of feed additives including Meri-Bond Xtra & Multicide.

The Dying State of Ghana’s Poultry
GHANA - Information available to The Statesman indicates that Ghana now accounts for as much as 30 percent of all poultry products imported into West Africa sub region from the European Union.

Poultry Schools to be Established In Ghana
GHANA - Bio-security schools would soon be established in poultry concentrated areas in the country to help to update poultry farmers in basic cultural practices to avoid the spread of poultry-related pests and diseases.

Poultry Farmers Get Compensation
GHANA - Government has paid a total of about 1.6 billion cedis as compensation to about 40 farmers whose poultry and poultry products were destroyed during the outbreaks of the Avian Influenza this year.

Poultry Farmers Urged To Implement Bio-Security Measures
GHANA - Poultry farmers have been urged to implement bio-security measures on their farms to prevent an outbreak of Avian Influenza (Bird Flu). Dr Joseph Adongo Awuni, Head of Bird Flu Surveillance Team, made the call at a day's poultry development workshop...

Ghana's poultry organisation clears the air over corn import
GHANA - Ghana's Dormaa Poultry Farmers Association (DPFA) has denied rumours among maize producers that the government allowed corn imports last year to cause a glut in the market to kick maize farmers out of business.

Gov't killed the poultry business - Agriculturalist
GHANA - An agriculturist and managing director of Sydals Limited William Awuku Ahiadormey has launched a scathing attack on government, blaming it for what he terms the woes of the local poultry industry.

Ghana poised to export poultry
GHANA - Darko Farms Limited on Thursday exported 25,000 broiler fertilized eggs worth 10,000 dollars to Cameroon and said Ghana had reached a point where it could export poultry and poultry products to neighbouring countries and even Europe.