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The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), Dr Afua Asabea Asare, has said each district in Ghana is expected to develop at least one exportable product that will provide the needed raw materials to feed the factories that have been established under the government’s one district one factory policy.
She said the decision was part of the Authority’s strategies under the National Export Development Strategy (NEDS) to facilitate the implementation of government’s industrialisation agenda by increasing Non-Traditional Exports (NTEs) in the country.
In a speech delivered by the Deputy CEO of GEPA, Mr. Albert Kassim on her behalf in Tamale, the CEO stated that GEPA was mandated by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) to take advantage of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement to facilitate the development of NTEs to further create more jobs in the country.
In the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality is a giant sleeping industry, Bonsa Tyre Company Limited (BTCL), once vibrant but sadly non-functional for a number of decades.
With well-known brands of rubber products, from various sizes of tyres to tubes, the factory, in the 1990s saw heavy investment for refurbishment to bring it back to life, but that did not work and new equipment have been left to rot.
The tyre factory has now been taken over by weeds and has become a den of reptiles.
Firestone’s withdrawal
The BTCL, which was established in 1963 as part of the import substitution programme, was to produce vehicle tyres for the local automobile assembling industry and the mines.
Western Region s Bonsa Tyre Factory defunct graphic.com.gh - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from graphic.com.gh Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ghana-Press-Review April 12, 2021 to 10:25 111 APA – Accra (Ghana) The report that Ghana’s first digital project to monitor petroleum products lifted from depots across the country has recorded over GH¢600 million more revenue in six months than the same period the year before is one of the leading stories in the Ghanaian press on Monday.
The Graphic reports that Ghana’s first digital project to monitor petroleum products lifted from depots across the country has recorded over GH¢600 million more revenue in six months than the same period the year before.
The achievement follows the implementation of the digitisation programme rolled out by the government in June last year.
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BY: Ama Amankwah Baafi
Category: Business News
Dr Afua Asabea Asare (4th left), CEO of GEPA, Mr Samuel Dentu, (3rd left), Deputy CEO of GEPA, and some officials of the NEPC during the visit
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The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) won the bid to host the World Trade Promotion Organisation (WTPO), conference and awards, originally scheduled for 2020 but was postponed to November this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a media release issued in Accra by GEPA, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Authority, Dr Afua Asabea Asare, said about 250 representatives from all trade promotion organisations worldwide were expected at the conference.