{"id":701709,"date":"2019-09-09T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T10:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/09\/nana-opens-another-fertilizer-factory\/"},"modified":"2019-09-09T10:25:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T10:25:53","slug":"nana-opens-another-fertilizer-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/09\/nana-opens-another-fertilizer-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Opens Another Fertilizer Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Samuel Twumesi Ankrah (left), Production Manager explaining a point to President Akufo-Addo (right) during a tour of the factory. With them is Michael Zormelo (right).<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Nana Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday
\ncommissioned one of the biggest fertiliser manufacturing companies owned by a
\nGhanaian.<\/p>\n

The OmniFert Fertiliser Factory is located at
\nDawhenya (Community 25, Tema) off the Accra -Ada road, and it has a total of
\nfive warehouses on a-12 acre land, with a total storage capacity of 100, 000
\nmetric tons.<\/p>\n

It currently employs 400 Ghanaians and intends
\nto add an additional 100 upon completion of the second phase of the project.<\/p>\n

It also specialises in breeding its own variety
\nand sources the best available stock from the company\u2019s suppliers
\ninternationally.<\/p>\n

It has also invested into another new blending
\nplant to increase the capacity of the existing plant with a blending and
\nbagging production rate of over 50 tonnes per hour.<\/p>\n

The facility has a two blending plants in
\naddition to a sack printing plant.<\/p>\n

It comes on the heels of the commissioning of a
\nsimilar fertiliser factory at Asuboi in the Eastern Region by Vice President
\nBawumia a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Commissioning the projects, President
\nAkufo-Addo said, \u201cThis is one of the best ways of improving the living
\nstandards of our people and set the nation on the path of progress and
\nprosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was optimistic that
\nthe spectre where 1.2 hectares of farmlands owned on the average by a small
\nholder farmer is characterised by low productivity levels would come to an end.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe application of correct fertiliser will be
\na factor in multiplying yield and enhancing farmers\u2019 income from the same
\nacreage of land,\u201d the President said, adding, \u201cThat is why a key component of
\nthe programme for \u2018Planting for Food and Jobs\u2019 is the provision of subsidised
\nfertilisers to farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The management of OmniFert \u2012 under the leadership of Michael Zormelo, who is the Group Managing Director\u2012 prides itself on having developed a variety of seeds to give premium quality and touted as having high-end research facilities with best practice biotechnology and pathology services and infrastructure.<\/p>\n

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He said the company was established to
\ncomplement government\u2019s \u2018Planting for Food and Jobs\u2019 programme and was,
\ntherefore, hopeful government would help the company to grow.<\/p>\n

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of COCOBOD,
\nJoseph BoahenAidoo, who was present, decried the low application of fertiliser
\nin the country.<\/p>\n

He was confident that the establishment of OmniFert with their \u2018tailor-made\u2019 products would encourage farmers to apply the right fertiliser to boost food production.<\/p>\n

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In the coming year, he said government would purchase seven million bags of fertiliser and, thus, stressed the belief that management of the company would position themselves to take advantage of the opportunity notwithstanding the competitiveness in the local fertiliser manufacturing business.<\/p>\n

By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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