{"id":684502,"date":"2019-08-18T04:12:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T04:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">With a production capacity of over 800,000 metric tonnes per year, the Glofert Fertilizer Factory, a wholly-owned Ghanaian company built under the government\u2019s \u00a0One District One Factory initiative , is the first fertilizer "},"modified":"2019-08-18T04:12:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T04:12:22","slug":"bawumia-commissions-fertilizer-factory-under-1d1f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/18\/bawumia-commissions-fertilizer-factory-under-1d1f\/","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia commissions fertilizer factory under 1D1F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">With a production capacity of over 800,000 metric tonnes per year, the Glofert Fertilizer Factory, a wholly-owned Ghanaian company built under the government\u2019s \u00a0One District One Factory initiative , is the first fertilizer production plant outside the Tema Industrial enclave and produces all kinds of fertilizers notably Urea, Ammonium Sulphate, as well as NPKs which are widely used by farmers in Ghana and across the continent of Africa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ghana has an annual fertilizer requirement of 600,000 metric tonnes, according to officials of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Vice President Bawumia expressed delight at the successful partnership between Government, represented by the One District One Factory Secretariat, and the private sector represented by Glofert Limited, which had led to the creation of jobs and the production of increased crop yields for Ghanaian farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThere is something special about today. Today we are adding one more major step towards achieving the President\u2019s vision of building a Ghana Beyond Aid. Because one of the pathways to achieving this vision is through agricultural transformation \u2014 making farming attractive, increasing farmers\u2019 productivity, increasing their income and making it possible for agriculture to support industrialization,\u201d he stated<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThe Government of H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been very keen about delivering on its promise to create a viable, self-sustaining economy.\u00a0 One of the means by which this can be achieved is through modern industrialization and to reduce our dependency on the outside world through imports to produce our own food,\u201d and this would largely be done through the One District One factory Initiative, the Vice President indicated.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">According to the Ministry of Trade and Industry, 181 1D1F Projects are at various stages of implementation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Dr. Bawumia disclosed that Government has recently obtained Parliamentary approval for tax incentives framework for companies seeking to operate under the 1D1F programme, including five years tax holiday; waiver from import duties and taxes on equipment, machinery and parts; waiver from payment of duties and levies on raw materials; and a waiver from the payment of withholding taxes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Vice President charged the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Cocobod and other stakeholders to now buy from domestic sources and not waste valuable foreign exchange on imports of fertilizer going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">On his part, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Glofert, Rev Foster Mawuli Benson, expressed appreciation to Government for the support which has led to the establishment of the factory that is providing full-time employment for 35 persons and casual employment for 180 others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a production capacity of over 800,000 metric tonnes per year, the Glofert Fertilizer Factory, a wholly-owned Ghanaian company built under the government\u2019s \u00a0One District One Factory initiative , is the first fertilizer production plant outside the Tema Industrial enclave and produces all kinds of fertilizers notably Urea, Ammonium Sulphate, as well as NPKs which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":684503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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