Ghanaians urged to take advantage of high demand for cassava starch
Cassava Starch
Ghana
Published Oct 2, 2021
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A Business Entrepreneur has indicated that cassava starch has gained huge demand on the international market, and urged Ghanaians to take advantage of the ready market.
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Madam Priscilla Fiati, a Business Development Manager at the Torchbearer International Agricultural Science and Technology Group (TIAST Group), noted that China alone imports over three million tonnes of cassava starch every year, worth 30 billion dollars, and expressed the hope that Ghana could be part of the value chain which could help create more jobs and alleviate poverty. Madam Fiati made the remarks when addressing participants at the ongoing sixth Agricultural Industrialization Conference in Takoradi under the theme, “Financial and Technological Support for Agricultural Processing”, organised by the TIAST Group in partnership with the Stanbic Bank. She indicated that her outfit had secured a ready market of over 600,000 tons order per year to assist producers in selling all their processed goods on a weekly basis, saving them the headache of finding buyers for their processed products and therefore called on Ghanaians to take advantage of the huge opportunity in the ...
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