Top Court fixes April 16 for election petition hearing The Supreme Court has fixed April 16, 2013 to start hearing of the substantive matter in the presidential election results petition. Read more... Add new comment Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 April 2013 20:44

ADB targets agro-processing businesses The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) says it intends to take advantage of the high local and foreign demand for value-added agricultural products to expand agro-processing businesses in the country. Read more... Add new comment   Can Ghana's NPP learn something from Kenya's Court verdict?   The PM of Britain David Cameron has written to President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta. He congratulates the President-elect and all others elected in Kenya's elections, upheld today by the Kenyan Supreme Court. Read more... Add new comment Last Updated on Sunday, 31 March 2013 10:56   Ghana risks running out of clean water in 12years Experts are raising alarming concerns about the extent of pollution on the nation’s water bodies treated for drinking, warning of dire health implications and the potential of causing the water bodies to dry up. Read more... Add new comment Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 April 2013 20:43   Suicide over rotten tomatoes Vegetable farmers at Akomadan in the Tano North District of the Ashanti Region are crying for help as perennial post-harvest losses are forcing some of them to commit suicide.  The farmers secure huge loans to grow their crops but most of their harvests rot on the farms because there’s no ready market.  Luv FM’s KwabenaOwusu Ampratwum visited the community for Joy FM's Hotline documentary series and reports the situation is dire. “Growing tomatoes here is like a lottery. You never know when you’ll not record serious losses. Some people are committing suicide as a result of this,” a worried farmer told Hotline. The situation has been compounded by bad feeder roads in the community. The roads feature large gullies filled with mud and sludge. During the rainy season, it’s a big luck to travel a kilometer without getting stuck in mud. As a result middle men and women, and not the farmers, determine the prices of produce. “The sale of the tomatoes is a problem. The women determine how much we get at the end of the day. The tomatoes are perishable so we have no choice than to give it to them at any rate. Even after prices have been agreed with the women, they sometimes change their mind when we bring the produce from the farm.  The saddest part of the story is that sometimes acres of tomatoes are left to rot on the farm. “I spent over three thousand cedis on this farm but I could only raise two thousand cedis. I was only fortunate to have grown some cassava on another parcel of land. That was what saved,” another farmer told Hotline. Because of these losses the farmers are scared to invest to expand their own farmers – high yields do not necessarily translate into high earnings. Add new comment Last Updated on Thursday, 21 March 2013 21:09

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