Ghana records expansion in exports
Dr Afuah Asabea Asare, the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), said Ghana has recorded substantial expansion in exports, which has enhanced her stature in international trade.
However, she said, the recent relatively weak performance of the non-traditional exports (NTEs) sector and other externalities in the international trading environment had revealed the risks, weaknesses and uncertainties associated with the over-dependence on primary commodity exports and limited product diversification.
She said government had, therefore, embarked on industrialisation agenda, which had brought about the establishment of many manufacturing companies under its flagship One-District-One-Factory programme.
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The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has pledged to provide tailor-made support services to female entrepreneurs in the export business to help increase earnings from the sector.
It said beyond helping expand their businesses, the support would equip them to bridge the gender inequality in the private sector.
The strategy is part of the authority’s broader plan to help the country achieve the United Nations’ (UN’s) Sustainable Development Goal Five, which enjoins countries to create equal opportunities for both genders by 2030.
In the gender context of the National Export Development Strategy (NEDS), women have been identified as the main agents of change to achieve equitable social balance and social justice.
400,000 seedlings distributed to coconut farmers GEPA
As part of its commitment to boost Ghana s non-traditional export sector, the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), has distributed 400,000 coconut seedlings to farmers across the country under the Government of Ghana Coconut Revitalization Programme.
The coconut seedlings distribution exercise which commenced in June 2020 and intended to accelerate the production of the tree crop for export, has been lauded by key industry stakeholders, particularly the Coconut Federation of Ghana (COCOFEG), as a timely intervention to farmers in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus health crisis.
CEO of Ignite Farms, a commercial coconut grower and exporter based in the Bono East Region, Jeffery Osei Bonsu, lauded GEPA for the initiative and pledged to continue collaborating with the government to grow the industry.