Volta Council of State member to establish sugar, rice processing plants to boost agriculture

The Council of State subordinate representing the Volta Region, Gabriel Tanko Kwamigah-Atokple, has announced plans to found sweetener processing factories and atom milling machines successful the portion to boost section agriculture and make jobs for the youth.

In a connection connected his authoritative Facebook leafage aft a circuit of respective agriculturally affluent communities successful the Volta Region, Kwamigah-Atokple said the inaugural is portion of a broader effort to unlock concern opportunities that straight payment the people.

The circuit covered communities specified arsenic Weta, Afife, Avalavi, Atiteti, and different surrounding areas known for large-scale atom and sugarcane production.

“As a palmy atom husbandman myself, and present arsenic a typical of the radical connected the Council of State, my work is not conscionable to counsel the President but to besides place and enactment investments that bring existent alteration to our communities,” helium stated.

He noted that though these communities are affluent successful arable onshore and hardworking farmers, they proceed to look captious post-harvest challenges owed to the lack of modern instrumentality and agro-processing facilities.

To code these challenges, Kwamigah-Atokple said helium and his concern partners are moving to present modern atom milling machines, sugarcane processing factories, and the Kasette Phattana marque of harvester harvesters to amended efficiency, trim post-harvest losses, and chopped down Ghana’s dependency connected cultivation imports.

Additionally, helium hinted astatine plans to research the enlargement of food farming successful the portion arsenic portion of a holistic cultivation improvement strategy.

“With the close support, we tin not lone amended ratio and trim discarded but besides make sustainable jobs for our youth,” helium emphasized. “Agriculture remains a captious portion of our economy, and by investing strategically, we tin crook it into a almighty motor of maturation for Volta and beyond.”

AM/KA

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