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Salt sector strategy document launched

By Kofi Ahovi The Ghana Export Promotion Council (GEPC) has outdoored the Salt Sector Strategy Document to enhance the production of salt in the country. The strategy seeks to attract immense domestic as well as foreign direct investments into the Tekperbiawe area in the Ada traditional area and subsequently its environs. The strategy document is a product of three earlier missions that collected data and held discussions with key stakeholders including selected financial institutions, donor partners and government institutions to ascertain financial schemes and support packages available to the sector. The document was facilitated by GEPC, Private Enterprise Foundation and the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. Tepkerbaiwe area holds the potential of producing an estimated 1,438,000 metric tonnes of salt per annum relative to the total potential capacity of Ghana to produce three million metric tonnes per annum. “Significantly, the salt industry in Ghana has the potential of generati...