Tag: 1D1F
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Akufo-Addo inaugurates 1D1F tomato factory at Shai Osudoku
President Nana Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, 19th December 2019, commissioned the Leefound Food Stuff (GH) Ltd., a tomato processing factory operating under Government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative. The factory, located at Doryumu in the Shai Osudoku constituency, has been established by two Chinese Companies, Tianjin Limmin Condiments Co. Ltd. and Grand Rise Food Co. (GH) Ltd., to produce…
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Bawumia cuts sod for Watermelon Processing Factory in Walewale
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has cut sod for works to begin on the construction of a Watermelon Processing Factory at Walewale in the North East Region, as part of government’s industrialization agenda udner the ‘One District One Factory initiative.’ When operational by the end of 2020, the factory is expected to eliminate the yearly…
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Trade Ministry woos 1D1F investors with bank facilities
The Trade and Industry Ministry says businesses that are still interested in government’s District One Factory Programme, should not be discouraged in terms of access to funding because ten banks including GCB Bank and Exim Bank are currently supporting the project. It says over 80 factories are already operating under the 1D1F project. “Now we…
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Ekumfi Fruits Factory ready for inauguration — 1D1F Coordinator
The Ekumfi Fruits and Juices Company Limited, the first factory President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo inaugurated at Ekumfi under the One-District-One-Factory (1D1F project in 2017, is ready for commercial production. The facility will be the biggest fruits processing factory in West Africa, with the capacity to process 10 tons of fruits per hour. Mrs. Gifty…
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Somanya to get fertilizer factory under 1D1F
The construction of a fertiliser production factory under the one district one factory has commenced in Somanya in the Yilo Krobo Municipality, to process both faecal and bio-degradable waste. The construction of the factory is part of the “Creating and Capturing Value” (Capval) project launched in 2015 by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and…
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Reduction in benchmark values is disincentive for manufacturing — AGI
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) has stated that the government’s reduction in the benchmark values of imported goods is troubling and could be counterproductive to the government’s industrialisation agenda. AGI in a press statement issued said it will require government more commitment to chart a very competitive path for the industry to ensure sustainable…
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“Teknokrats” must help government’s 1D1F Policy
“Teknokrats” have been urged to bring their research expertise, knowledge and support to bear on the government’s flagship industrialisation policy of One District, One Factory (1D1F) to accelerate industrial growth in the country. “Tecknocrat” is the name given to Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) alumni. Their support, according to Dr. Kofi Kodua…
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Ketu South MCE targets cassava processing company under 1D1F
Eliot Edem Agbenorwu, Ketu South Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) has said plans are far advanced for the Municipality to start government’s flagship One District, One Factory” (1D1F). He said the Assembly had acquired large tracts of land at Akame, on which a cassava processing factory would be sited, hopefully before the end of the…