Ghana government commits GH₵50 million to coffee production

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Ghana government has committed about GH₵50 million to embark on a program to grow and export coffee as a commercial crop.

This was made known at the Ghana Coffee Conference in Accra which saw stakeholders within the coffee value chain deliberate on ways of making Ghana a leading producer of coffee in the world.

Speaking at the Ghana Coffee Conference in Accra, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, said the government has pulled the needed resources to begin the large-scale cultivation of coffee under the ‘Planting for exports and rural development project.’

“We have to diversify into coffee cultivation and export. We have over depended on cocoa over the decades and this has to change. We have committed ₵50 million into this project and we expect to be in business with coffee exports,” he said.

The maiden edition of the coffee conference has been described as very timely especially when Ghana is documented to be losing billions of dollars for not investing in this enterprise.

President of the Coffee Federation of Ghana, Chief Nat Ebo Nsarko expressed confidence in this project. He said global investors are already on standby to cash into this new coffee enterprise by the government.

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