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Kintampo South gets ginger factory

The District Chief Executive (DCE) of Kintampo South, Mr Opoku Nyame has commissioned a ginger factory at Krabonso under the One District One Factory (1D1F) policy of the Akufo-Addo-led government.

Date Created : 11/29/2021 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Jabal Peter/Ghanadistricts.com

The project is being co-funded by the European Union with counterpart funding from 4 implementing partners namely; Centre for Local Governance Advocacy (CLGA), National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG), Centre of Posterity Interest Organization (COPIO) and Abrono Organic Farming Project (ABOFAP).

The ginger factory comprises a ginger washing facility, a ginger processing centre, a warehouse, holding room, a conference facility and other ancillary facilities.

The establishment of the ginger factory at Krabonso is aimed at leveraging on the ginger value chain within the community to provide employment for especially the youth and women in agriculture.

Part of the factory, 100 acres of ginger farm has already been cultivated to feed the factory for the interim, an estimated direct and indirect jobs of 300 will be created in the ginger value chain, from cultivation to processing of the product.

The DCE thus urged members of the community to take advantage of the factory and enter into commercial production of ginger to feed the factory as the government is committed to providing the necessary assistance for the smooth operation of the facility.

He charged the Chiefs and indigence of the community to provide the needed support to the facility so that the President’s vision of industrialization through planting for food and export would be achieved.

He commended the Member of Parliament of Kintampo South, Mr Alexander Gyan who initiated the project.

Mr. Isaac Amofa, the Project Coordinator noted that the PRODESOP project is a Social Protection Project aimed at leveraging on the ginger value chain in both Kintampo North Municipality and Kintampo South District to provide employment for the very poorest within the communities especially women, youth and PWDs to enable them access financial freedom.

The Project he noted is expected to provide employment for beneficiaries through skills development, the provision of basic infrastructures, inputs for Commercial production, Value addition processes and access to market.

Nana Adjei, Nifa Hene of Krabonso, thanked the government and the funding agencies for bringing such a laudable project to the community and promised the community will contribute its quota to make the project a success and to the end address the challenges of youth unemployment within the community and other adjourning communities.

Jabal Peter/Ghanadistricts.com