The Sunyani Greenfield Cooperative Mango Producers and Marketing Society Ghana Limited has appealed to the government ahead of the National Mango Day to assist in establishing a mango processing factory in the region under the One District, One Factory (1D1F) programme.
According to the Society, there is a dire need to establish such a factory because of the commodity’s abundance in the region and to end the annual challenge of waste because of the high quantity of rot and the attendant monetary loss experienced by producers.
Dr. Mrs. Vida Korang, the Society’s Secretary, appealed when the Group presented 1,500 pieces of exotic mango fruits of an export value estimated at GhC2000.00 to the Sunyani Central Prisons in support of the Prison Management’s effort to provide nutritious diets to the inmates.
“The Society is concerned about the nutritional challenges of the inmates and therefore took the initiative to support and improve their health status to prevent the outbreak of infectious diseases among them.”
Dr. Mrs. Vida Korang
Mango Green Gold-Beyond Value Addition, Market Diversification, and Development
Dr. Korang added that the donation is also the Society’s corporate social responsibility forming part of its participation in the National Mango Week celebration in Accra from Monday, July 4 to Friday, July 8, on the theme “Mango Green Gold-Beyond Value Addition: Market Diversification and Market Development.”
She stressed the need for the regular consumption of fresh mango to improve and maintain a quality state of health, citing that eating mango a day protects one from diabetes, heart, and other chronic diseases.
Dr. Korang said, “mango is the number one fruit that has the highest nutritional value among all the fruits in the world” and stressed that “it has low calories, boosts the immune system and improves the digestive system.”
Assistant Director of Prisons (ADP) Mr. Samuel Fiifi Dontoh, the Bono Regional Commander of the Ghana Prisons Service, thanked the Group for the donation and appealed to philanthropists and corporate and charitable organizations to emulate “such a notable example.”
Ghana must industrialize
Recently, the CEO of Ghana-based LMI Holdings, Kojo Aduhene, disclosed that Ghana and Africa must industrialize to emerge competitive in the global market.
There are numerous opportunities on the African continent. Investors must be poised to take full advantage of Africa’s industrial expansion and intra-regional trade growth, Kojo Aduhene noted in an interview.
“Ghana and Africa must industrialize. To do that, we need to have an enabling environment. We need to make sure we have in place all the infrastructure that will be needed. With individual countries now putting the necessary framework in place, the time is ripe for the public and private sectors to address infrastructural shortfalls in priority areas, such as power distribution and transmission, alongside water and internet provision.”
Kojo Aduhene
He further stressed the prospects for increased intra-regional trade through the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which is the key to boosting Africa’s competitiveness over time.
“We need to integrate to use various raw materials to compete. The African Continental Free Trade Area is excellent because it forces countries to make decisions,” he disclosed.
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