President John Dramani Mahama has revealed plans to place the Volta Area as a serious hub for agribusiness underneath the federal government’s flagship Feed Ghana initiative.
President Mahama responding to a delegation from the Volta regional home of chiefs famous that the area’s pure benefits together with its wealthy vegetation, fertile land, and water our bodies made it supreme for large-scale agricultural manufacturing and meals processing.
“The Volta Area is uniquely positioned due to your vegetation, your land, the water and the final atmosphere to be a serious participant within the Feed Ghana venture,” he mentioned.
He added that past farming, the area would play a key position in processing agricultural produce into completed items for each native consumption and export.
“We additionally see the Volta Area because the hub for agribusiness to course of the merchandise from the meals planner venture each for home consumption and for exports,” the President said.
President Mahama additional disclosed that authorities would help the Volta Palm Challenge, a neighborhood initiative geared toward growing oil palm cultivation.
He mentioned this kinds a part of a broader nationwide plan to develop 200,000 hectares of oil palm throughout the nation, with funding being sought from the African Improvement Financial institution.
The President burdened that the Feed Ghana programme is just not solely about meals safety but in addition about creating jobs, attracting funding, and stimulating industrial progress via agro-processing.
President of the Volta Area Home of Chiefs, Togbe Tepre Hodo IV, welcomed the information and warranted the federal government of the area’s readiness to help and take part totally within the initiative.
He mentioned large-scale meals manufacturing and agro-industrial improvement could be key to reworking the native economic system and lowering unemployment.
By: Jacob Aggrey
