{"id":415016,"date":"2017-09-05T21:52:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/05\/one-district-one-factory-ekumfi-pineapple-factory-to-employ-over-5000-people\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T21:52:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:52:50","slug":"one-district-one-factory-ekumfi-pineapple-factory-to-employ-over-5000-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/05\/one-district-one-factory-ekumfi-pineapple-factory-to-employ-over-5000-people\/","title":{"rendered":"One District One Factory: Ekumfi pineapple factory to employ over 5000 people"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ekumfi Pineapple Processing Factory, the first factory to be constructed under the government\u2019s \u2018One District One Factory\u2019 project is expected to employ over 5000 people when completed by mid-2018.<\/p>\n

General Manager of the company, Daniel Kwarteng, said about $5million is expected to be invested into the project from the $2billion Exim bank Chinese loan announced earlier by government.<\/p>\n

It is expected that the company will pay back the loan in seven years. Chinese contractors as part of the package, will construct the facility on a 10 acre land.<\/p>\n

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The Ekumfi Fruit Processing Company factory when completed will process pineapples for the local and international market.<\/p>\n

Currently the company cultivates the fruit and seeks to expand its operations into processing.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kwarteng said, \u201cThe introduction of the policy has motivated us to speed up and implement our plans of processing the fruits into various other products.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Launch of the project<\/b><\/p>\n

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will on Friday launch his government\u2019s flagship policy \u201dOne District One Factory\u201d at Ekumfi in the Central Region.<\/p>\n

The program will be the formal launch of the implementation of the One District One Factory policy.<\/h3>\n

This will be in fulfillment of a pledge by President Akufo-Addo to see the actualization of the industrialization of Ghana as part of the transformation process he envisages for the country.<\/p>\n

The policy, when implemented will create the environment conducive for each local government areas to own factories relative to their well-endowed resources and capacity to provide jobs and wealth for the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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