{"id":461080,"date":"2018-02-03T11:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T11:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/03\/ga-east-wants-ban-of-tomato-factory-revoked-to-boost-1d1f\/"},"modified":"2018-02-03T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T11:40:57","slug":"ga-east-wants-ban-of-tomato-factory-revoked-to-boost-1d1f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/03\/ga-east-wants-ban-of-tomato-factory-revoked-to-boost-1d1f\/","title":{"rendered":"Ga East wants ban of tomato factory revoked to boost 1D1F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Saturday,  3 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-03<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/87093768.295.jpg\" alt=\"Tomatoes Newbreed\" title=\"Tomatoes Newbreed\" width=\"295\" height=\"177\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>File photo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517658057_16_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">As part of efforts to boost the government\u2019s \u2018One-District, One-Factory\u2019 policy in the country and also revive the employment status of the youth in the Ga East Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, Happy Sunshine Company Limited, a tomato paste manufacturing company based at Kuntunse, is to begin operations.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the company has satisfied all statutory requirements to regularize its operations including receiving approval from the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) and the Registrar General\u2019s  Department, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) halted the operations of the company due to some environmental concerns.<\/p>\n<p>But the chiefs and elders of Kuntunse are urging the EPA to \u2013 as a matter of urgency \u2013 allow the company to resume operations after it had rectified all the environmental concerns initially detected.<\/p>\n<p>The chiefs explained that the closure is creating a lot of economic hardship for the people, especially the young ones.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a durbar at Kuntunse as part of the efforts to integrate the community into the operations of the company, the Managing Director of Happy Sunshine Company, Mars Du, said, \u201cThe company is committed to invest in Ghana and support the government in its efforts to bridge the unemployment gap\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is also the vision of Happy Sunshine to boost the industrialization drive of Ghana and support the government\u2019s 1D-1F policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is evident in the establishment of a high-tech ultra-modern manufacturing plant to produce highly nutritious and tasty tomato paste for the Ghanaian market by Happy Sunshine Company limited,\u201d Madam Du indicated.<\/p>\n<p>She said the EPA embarked on a survey in the municipality and \u201cthe evidence show overwhelming endorsement by members of the community for the factory to be sited in the Kuntunse community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of 162 respondents who were surveyed by the EPA, 156 of the residents support the location of the factory in the community. One hundred and forty-three residents have no issues with any environmental pollution because they can attest to the efforts made by Happy Sunshine to protect the environment,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Du added: \u201cBased on the number of persons sampled and surveyed on a myriad of issues as directed by the EPA, 96.89% of the residents within the community agree with the presence of the factory in their community and are kindly requesting the EPA to allow the company resume operations following the temporal closure of the factory owing to some environmental concerns\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief of Kuntunse, Nii Noi Nortey, urged the government and the EPA to as a matter of urgency to allow the company resume operations.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that many of the young people who were employed by the company have since the closure been unemployed and this is creating a lot of economic hardship for his people.<\/p>\n<p>The chief said Happy Sunshine believes in the local content law of Ghana and has therefore reserved about 70% of employment opportunities for the local people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is also the medium term goal of the company to train the local people to run, manage and maintain the equipment as their Chinese counterparts transfer the technical know-how on to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nii Nortey revealed that the company has also earmarked a number corporate social responsibilities events to be undertaken for the benefit of the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese include the refurbishment of dilapidated school structures, assisting the police with resources to fight crime in the community, encourage teachers and health workers to accept postings to the community by helping with the construction of bungalows among many others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nii Nortey noted that the company has assured members of the Kuntunse community and the entire Ghanaian populace of their \u201cundying commitment to ensure a safe environment and a strict adherence to the environmental laws of Ghana\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 43 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Saturday, 3 February 2018 Source: 3news.com 2018-02-03 File photo As part of efforts to boost the government\u2019s \u2018One-District, One-Factory\u2019 policy in the country and also revive the employment status of the youth in the Ga East Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, Happy Sunshine Company Limited, a tomato paste manufacturing company based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":455283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}