Government of Ghana to support largest exporter of potatoes

Published 2021년 10월 5일

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Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, the Minister for Food and Agriculture in Ghana, has promised support to Maphlix Trust Farms Limited, the country's largest potato exporter. This promise was made during a visit to the farm, which is expanding its operations and seeking connections to various utility networks. The farm, which started in 2013 and runs on power plants and borehole water, is currently cultivating orange-fleshed potatoes across 700 acres, with plans to expand. However, the need for more tractors and facilities for processing and packaging remains. Additionally, the Minister is looking to establish a formal agreement with a Dutch plant propagation company to provide high-quality seedlings for the government's agricultural projects.

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Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Minister for Food and Agriculture, has pledged Government’s support for Maphlix Trust Farms Limited, the nation’s largest exporter of potatoes. The Minister made the pledged when he visited the Company’s 2,000-hectare estate at Tadzewu in the Ketu North Municipality during a working tour of the Volta Region. Mr. Felix Kamassah, Managing Director of the Company had appealed to the Government to help develop its operational structures, which he said would bear on the nation’s crop production and export sector. The project, which began in 2013, runs on power plants and uses water from boreholes, and seeks to be connected to the various utility networks including; the Trans ECOWAS Highway, which cuts through the area. He said the construction of a 250-ton capacity packhouse, and a potato-processing factory was ready to take off once connected to power and had over 700 acres under orange-fleshed potato cultivation, farmed mostly by outgrowers, and ...

Source: Ghanaweb