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Patrick Laryea

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Theophilus Ofori-Gyamo, Bolstaar

  • October 26, 2025
Agriculture in Africa is more than just food production, it’s innovation, resilience, and opportunity. Across the continent, a new wave of founders are redefining what it means to farm turning everyday challenges into billion-cedi possibilities. In this All Agric Spotlight, we feature Theophilus Ofori-Gyamo, the founder of Bolstaar, a farm equipment sourcing and management platform making the African farming experience easier and better for every farmer, everywhere. From his early inspirations to the challenges of building for African realities, Theophilus shares lessons, insights, and hopes for the future of agriculture.
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Introducing All Agric Insights

  • September 29, 2023
All Agric is launching its first newsletter and it’s called “All Agric Insights”. We are bringing together all of Africa’s agriculture startup stories, stock updates, tech innovations, trade news, policy updates,…
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Introducing 10 Billion Strong’s Green Leaders Academy Hub

  • July 12, 2023
In an era where environmental challenges and climate change continues to pose significant threats to our planet, the need for effective environmental leadership and civic engagement has become more crucial…
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Koa Natural, first cocoa fruit juice launched in Ghana

  • May 30, 2023
Swiss-Ghanaian startup, Koa, had introduced its first ready-to-drink cocoa fruit juice – Koa Natural – onto the Ghana and West African markets. The product, called Koa Natural, is an all-natural juice…
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Ghana has increased its cocoa producer price from GHS660 to GHS800 per bag for its 2022/23 crop

  • October 6, 2022
The new farmgate price which represents a 21% enhancement of the 2021/22 rate takes effect Friday, 7 October 2022. Ghana Cocoa Board thus will be buying a tonne of the…
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Agriculture Success Stories – Part 1

  • March 29, 2022
Agritop is proud to present one of many success stories of its Practical Agriculture Course graduates. This is the story of Amina Sulemana , formally a student but now an…
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Agriculture sector groups express concerns about the Agric sector & Living experiences of farmers & Ghanaians

  • March 23, 2022
PRESS STATEMENT The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG), the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU), the Rice Millers Association of Ghana (RMAG), and Food Sovereignty…
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Farmher Ghana trains women to use digital tools

  • March 16, 2022
Farmher Ghana, a non-governmental organization that equips women farmers with simple farm technology trainings and supports the essential role women farmers play in rural industries, businesses and communities has trained…
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Govt releases GH₵20.1m for compensation to poultry farmers affected by bird flu

  • March 15, 2022
A total of GH₵20.1 million has been released by the government for the payment of compensation to poultry farms affected by the outbreak of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, popularly…
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Price Of Cocoa Undermining Capital Accumulation By Farmers

  • March 15, 2022
“The search of international cocoa buying firms for new sources of cocoa produced in forest areas at cheaper cost undermines production in older established areas.  Thus, the price of cocoa…
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Ghana Eyes Investment To Scale Up Successful Cocoa Farm Irrigation Pilot Programme

  • March 15, 2022
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has appealed to stakeholders in the cocoa sector, particularly financial institutions and international non-governmental organisations, for support to upscale cocoa farm irrigation. The COCOBOD piloted…
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Taro, The Golden Food Security Crop

  • January 4, 2022
Taro, a food-crop that might just be the key to food security issues currently sits idle as its full socio economic potential is untapped in Africa.  The once popular food…
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ADB commits to increasing agricultural loans portfolio

  • December 20, 2021
Financing Agriculture is essential and cannot be overemphasized. This aspect of the value chain needs continuous evaluation to ensure banks and other stakeholders in charge of financing are working together…
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Africa Meets Asia: The Africa Singapore Business Forum

  • September 4, 2021
“Africa is the fastest urbanising region in the world. Between 1950 to 2015, it has grown from 27% to 40%.” … Africa Singapore Business Forum, the leading platform for promoting…
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Global food commodity prices rebound in August – FAO

  • September 3, 2021
Sugar, wheat and palm oil push up FAO Food Price Index. 02 September 2021, Rome – Global food commodity prices rebounded rapidly in August after two consecutive months of decline, led…
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Agricultural export earnings to grow about 8X in the next decade

  • August 30, 2021
The Minister for Information, Hon. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has stated that the agricultural export earnings of the country are bound to grow 8 times the current amount in the next…
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John Dumelo on the future of agriculture on the African Continent

  • August 23, 2021
“Around 660 million people may still face hunger in 2030.” Food and agriculture organization (FAO) Agripreneur, John Dumelo has publicly expressed his concerns about the current state of agriculture in Africa…
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COCOBOD Procures 40,000 Units of Tamper – Proof Electronic Weighing Scales

  • August 21, 2021
The COCOBOD CEO, Hon. Joseph Boahen Aidoo has confirmed the receipt of 40,000 new weighing scales ahead of the 2021/2022 cocoa season. The fight for the financial growth of the…
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COCOBOD Embarks On Anti-Child Labor Sensitization Program

  • July 25, 2021
Agriculture remains by far the most important sector where child laborers can be found (98 million, or 59%) International Labor Organization The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has embarked on a…
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Ghana Records Highest Ever Cocoa Output In Its Production History

  • July 23, 2021
Ghana has exceeded the 1 million tonnes mark in cocoa production for the first time since the 2010/11 crop season. Sources say the world’s no.2 top producer has recorded one…
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Agriculture charity needed to curb malnutrition & increase productivity – Farmher Gh

  • July 21, 2021
Agriculture over the years has gained roots and preeminence since it has been the backbone of many economies of the world. Agriculture has a lot of disciplines ranging from Animal…
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Outbreak of avian influenza disease in some parts of Ghana

  • July 18, 2021
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture through its Veterinary Services Directorate, has confirmed the outbreak of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza disease, otherwise known as Bird Flu in some parts…
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Atiwa East farmers and stakeholders discuss constraints at RELC session

  • July 15, 2021
Climate change and Covid-19 has undoubtedly affected Agriculture in recent times but the Atiwa East District Department of Agriculture in its quest to ensure that research activities, especially adaptive research…
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Atiwa East department of agriculture trains farmers and processors on branding

  • July 8, 2021
The gap between what finishers earn and what producers earn is often because producers do not add value to their products. Farmers and producers usually earn less profit while middle…
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The climate smart agriculture field day

  • May 13, 2021
The Atiwa East Department of Agriculture organized a Climate Smart Agriculture Field Day. Climate Change, the change in the normal climate of the planet with respect to temperature, rainfall, and…
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Raising healthy seedlings – Challenges

  • April 9, 2021
 Raising seedlings can be fun and exciting however, just like raising a new born baby; growing seeds to become seedlings can be very challenging and therefore requires careful attention and…
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The dying fishes: an unsafe shore for Ghanaians

  • April 7, 2021
Over the weekend, the news went rife on how hundreds of dolphins and some other fishes were found dead on the sea shore of Ghana, leaving the people in those…
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Farmers supported with 19,140 oil palm seedlings by the Atiwa East district assembly

  • April 3, 2021
The Atiwa East District Assembly has through the Atiwa East Department of Agriculture distributed 19,140 Oil Palm seedlings to farmers under the Planting for Export and Rural Development Program. The…
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John Dumelo on the KIC fellowship session

  • March 30, 2021
“The most important thing about agriculture is funding. Think big but start small” JOHN DUMELO The Kosmos Innovation Centre (KIC) held an online session dubbed the KIC Fellowship Technical Session…
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Eastern regional R.E.L.C. shares demonstration results with farmers

  • March 30, 2021
The Research Extension Farmer Linkage Committees (RELCs) was established by MoFA and the CSIR, in 1994, to serve as an interface between the National Agricultural Research System (NARS) and the…
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The climate change conference of parties

  • March 25, 2021
Preparations are ongoing for the 26th Climate Change Conference of Parties which will be held in Glasgow, UK on the 1st – 12th November 2021. The Climate Change Conference of…
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Climate change & its impact on the Ghanaian agriculture sector

  • March 23, 2021
Climate change is not just an issue of environment, but also an issue of development. Chibeze Ezekiel, 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE? Climate change, long known…
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Afreximbank announces a us$350m term loan facility for OCP group

  • March 16, 2021
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the Pan-African multilateral EXIM Bank, announces the signing of a 7-year US$350 Million Term Loan Facility to provide financing to OCP Group, the world’s largest…
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Gardening – How to grow healthy seedlings

  • March 10, 2021
A good head start is necessary for a successful cropping season and healthy seedlings have been known as one of the ways to achieve this head start. The importance of…
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Farmers lament over loss of farmlands to community mining

  • March 10, 2021
Farmers of Adaase, a suburb of Obuasi have expressed their concerns about the effects of community mining on their farms and water resources.  Adaase is home to a number of…
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Cocoa rehabilitation program commences in western south

  • March 10, 2021
The Cocoa Rehabilitation Program has been employed to combat the spread of the cocoa swollen shoot disease and to replace unproductive cocoa trees with early bearing, high yielding and disease…
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5 agriculture crowd funding platforms you should patronize & why – part 1 of 2

  • March 10, 2021
Crowd funding is the practice of funding a project by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, mostly via the Internet. It is fast becoming the…
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State of the nation 2021 – agriculture update

  • March 9, 2021
POST COVID “Mr. Speaker, our nation’s food resilience has been severely tested over the past year. The closure of borders, in the midst of the pandemic, meant that we have…
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