by Ashanti Produce | Oct 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) through its export school on Thursday began a two-day intensive training in export marketing for exporters, cooperative farmers, smock and basket weavers from various districts in the Upper East Region. The training which is...
by Ashanti Produce | Sep 15, 2011 | Ghana, Uncategorized
Ghana’s vast expanse of arable land and favorable weather positions the country as a potential producer and processor of fresh fruits and vegetables on a large scale. Mr Sunny George Verghese, Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Olam International,...
by Ashanti Produce | May 19, 2011 | Ghana
The Export Development and Investment Fund (EDIF) has introduced butternut squash, a fruit as a new export product from Ghana. Butternut, belongs to a group of crops collectively called cucurbit (a member of the gourd family, which includes pumpkin, melon, and...
by Ashanti Produce | May 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Over the past decade, Africa’s real GDP grew by 4.7% a year, on average—twice the pace of its growth in the 1980s and 1990s. The surge cut across nations and sectors. By 2009, Africa’s collective GDP of $1.6 trillion was roughly equal to Brazil’s or Russia’s. The...
by Ashanti Produce | Nov 8, 2010 | Ghana
Ghana leapt into the world ranking of middle-income countries on Friday with a new measure of its economy that will add over 60 percent to its output figure by better reflecting recent growth areas such as mobile telephony. The long-awaited move, which comes just...