Trade and Industry Minister Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen have expressed worry over the amount of money used to import Tomatoes fruits from Burkina Faso to Ghana.
Ghana last year alone imported tomatoes to the tune of 100 million dollars from Burkina Faso.
The Planting for Food and Jobs Initiative this year ensured a bumper harvest of food products across the country, with neighboring countries importing food from Ghana.
But speaking at Commissioning of the Lee found Food Stuff Ghana Limited; a tomato processing facility at Doryumu, in the Shai Osudoku District near Accra, Mr. Kyeremanteng indicated that the tomato factory had the potential of being a foreign exchange earner for the country through the exportation of processed tomatoes to other countries.
He also assured that the right atmosphere would be created to enhance the success of the investments in the enclave.
The Tomato processing facility is directly under the One District, One Factory initiative of Government.
Covering an area of about 60,000 square meters, it encompasses a comprehensive workshop, a finished product, raw materials, and packaging materials warehouses, office buildings.
The factory that has an estimated annual output of 54,000 tons of tomato paste, has three tomato paste filling production lines and their auxiliary production equipment.
Source: Kofi Atakora
