{"id":227798,"date":"2026-03-22T02:07:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-shea-industry-key-to-24-hour-economy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T02:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:07:54","slug":"ghana-shea-industry-key-to-24-hour-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-shea-industry-key-to-24-hour-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Shea Industry Key to 24-Hour Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">THE Northern Regional Minister, Mr Ali Adolf John Mburidiba, yesterday launched the Shea 2026 Conference to collaborate with Ghana&#8217;s 24-Hour Economy initiative, part of the national strategy designed to boost productivity, create jobs, and drive industry growth to encourage businesses and services to operate round the clock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The minister said the shea industry had the potential to address critical developmental challenges such as women empowerment, food security, and industrialisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Launching&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200201.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Northern Regional Minister, Mr Ali Adolf John Mburidiba, yesterday launched the Shea 2026 Conference to collaborate with Ghana&#8217;s 24-Hour Economy initiative, part of the national strategy designed to boost productivity, create jobs, and drive industry growth to encourage businesses and services to operate round the clock. The minister said the shea industry had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610400:f0462bc17f3c3efa383c3fd8ba8b775d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[26674,258,256,5762,4508,4509,8317,7274,257,40973,254],"class_list":["post-227798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-24hour","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-economy","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-industry","tag-key","tag-news","tag-shea","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610400:f0462bc17f3c3efa383c3fd8ba8b775d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}