The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) says it is able to present extra help to younger entrepreneurs, who enterprise into artisanal chocolate manufacturing and different cocoa-based merchandise.
Dr. Afua Asabea Asare, Chief Govt Officer of GEPA, stated the Authority would additionally present the mandatory market facilitation help to see the entrepreneurs break into the aggressive markets in Africa and past.
Dr Asare was talking on the digital opening of the 2nd version of the African Cocoa & Chocolate Expo (ACCE21) in Accra.
The occasion was on the theme: “Africa Past Beans: Elevating a New Technology of Cocoapreneurs for Wealth Creation.”
The occasion was to attract consideration of the Ghanaian public to the necessity to enhance consumption of cocoa merchandise.
Dr Asare stated the GEPA additionally wished to attract extra of the youthful technology into the sector, including that there was a current sharp rise within the variety of younger entrepreneurs who have been venturing into artisanal chocolate manufacturing and different cocoa-based merchandise.
She stated it was much more satisfying to see a big variety of younger girls coming into that area.
“All these efforts are being pursued within the context of the implementation of the Nationwide Export Improvement Technique, of which the cocoa worth chain is the important thing precedence,” she added.
She stated GEPA was opened to collaborate with companions to additional open up the cocoa sector to extra investments.
The CEO stated it was the joint imaginative and prescient of GEPA and Know Your Cocoa Basis that the ACCE would develop to turn out to be a very African premier and devoted present for the cocoa worth chain, which might be capable to rival all different Expos in its class globally.
She stated as “we’re all conscious, cocoa is the main export product of Ghana and has sustained the economic system for a couple of hundred years.”
“Sadly, now we have not achieved sufficient as a rustic so as to add worth to this priceless crop which is proudly referred to prior to now because the ‘meals of the gods’,” she stated.
She counseled Nana Aduna II for his fortitude and singular dedication to the promotion of the cocoa worth chain and his ardour to drive the cocoa worth chain agenda.
She stated their aim was to foster the final data of the totally different makes use of of cocoa and to encourage native consumption of cocoa merchandise.
“GEPA is poised to offer all the mandatory facilitation to Ghanaian exporters and individuals who’re desirous about venturing into the export enterprise with most help potential,” she stated.
Mr Hebert Krapa, a Deputy Minister of Commerce and Trade, counseled GEPA and the Basis for his or her ongoing partnership and willpower to advertise the industrialization agenda of Authorities with specific concentrate on the cocoa sector.
He stated the Cocoa Analysis Institute of Ghana (CRIG) had been endeavor some essential analysis into worth addition within the cocoa sector for the previous few many years they usually required all help to maximise advantages from the sector.
The Minister stated via the superb work that the Ministry of Meals and Agriculture was doing within the cocoa sector via Cocoa Board, manufacturing of cocoa had hit the a million metric tonne mark this cocoa season.
He stated, “we have to collectively redouble our efforts to quicken the tempo of worth addition that the President has been emphasizing during the last 5 years of the NPP Authorities.”
He stated the pandemic couldn’t and shouldn’t restrict the power to innovate, at the same time as public sector businesses and with assistance from expertise, ‘I do know that ACCE21 has a good wider and international attain.’
Mr Krapa stated it made lots of enterprise sense to faucet into the advantages caused by digital expertise and GEPA was utilizing this new means of export promotion and inspired them to do extra.
He stated the truth that Ghana was internet hosting the Secretariat of the free commerce space places the nation in a pole place to derive most advantages.
He challenged the subsequent technology of cocoapreneurs to make the most of the chance created by ACCE21 to start integration into the cocoa processing sector.
The Minister urged GEPA to maintain the occasion and make it an annual Ghanaian occasion on the worldwide calendar for Cocoa and Chocolate fanatics.
“GEPA can rely on my Ministry’s help within the endeavour,” he added.
Supply: GNA
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