Cuba Imports Ghana Cocoa
By Daily Guide - Daily Guide Business/Finance | Mon, 25 Feb 2008
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CUBA WILL increase its importation of cocoa from Ghana to feed a new plant that is to be operational this year for the local manufacture of chocolate.
The new plant has the capacity to process 25 tonnes of cocoa beans into chocolate.
Cuba's Food Minister, Alejandro Roca Iglesias dropped this hint in Havana during discussions with Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, who is on a seven-day official visit to that country.
Mr. Iglesias said his country had established an international school for chocolate production and requested Ghana to send students to the teaching facility that had learnt to make hand-made chocolates.
So far, Cuba had 10 hand-made chocolate factories in the country.
Vice President Alhaji Mahama said the requests made by the Minister would be tackled when the Joint Commission for Co-operation between the two countries was reactivated this year.
He assured the Cuban authorities of Ghana's readiness to train its citizenry in cocoa production.
Calling for the assistance of Cuba to revamp Ghana's sugarcane industry, Vice President Mahama bemoaned the increasing post-harvest losses in the country and called for joint partnership with Cuba to address the situation.
Alhaji Mahama later interacted with the Minister of Basic Industry, Mrs. Yadira Garcia Vera.
She told the Ghanaian delegation that an energy revolution started by her country in 2006 had resulted in energy stability and efficiency.
According to the sector Minister, Cuba had been the testing grounds for energy saving bulbs imported from China, leading to the changing of 60 million incandescent bulbs in Venezuela and other Caribbean countries.
Mrs. Garcia said Cuba would soon extend its assistance to 10 ECOWAS countries of which Ghana would be a beneficiary.
Vice President Alhaji Mahama visited Labiofam, a research institute that deals in a variety of activities such as the biological control of mosquitoes and the production of pesticides and vaccines.
The Enterprise Director, Jose Antonio Castro said the institute was carrying out research to develop a vaccine for Bird Flu.
Vice President Alhaji Mahama expressed the interest of Ghana to co-operate with the institute to eradicate mosquitoes, adding that treatment of malaria in Ghana had led to the loss of huge sums of money.
From Sheilla Sackey, Havana, Cuba
The new plant has the capacity to process 25 tonnes of cocoa beans into chocolate.
Cuba's Food Minister, Alejandro Roca Iglesias dropped this hint in Havana during discussions with Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, who is on a seven-day official visit to that country.
Mr. Iglesias said his country had established an international school for chocolate production and requested Ghana to send students to the teaching facility that had learnt to make hand-made chocolates.
So far, Cuba had 10 hand-made chocolate factories in the country.
Vice President Alhaji Mahama said the requests made by the Minister would be tackled when the Joint Commission for Co-operation between the two countries was reactivated this year.
He assured the Cuban authorities of Ghana's readiness to train its citizenry in cocoa production.
Calling for the assistance of Cuba to revamp Ghana's sugarcane industry, Vice President Mahama bemoaned the increasing post-harvest losses in the country and called for joint partnership with Cuba to address the situation.
Alhaji Mahama later interacted with the Minister of Basic Industry, Mrs. Yadira Garcia Vera.
She told the Ghanaian delegation that an energy revolution started by her country in 2006 had resulted in energy stability and efficiency.
According to the sector Minister, Cuba had been the testing grounds for energy saving bulbs imported from China, leading to the changing of 60 million incandescent bulbs in Venezuela and other Caribbean countries.
Mrs. Garcia said Cuba would soon extend its assistance to 10 ECOWAS countries of which Ghana would be a beneficiary.
Vice President Alhaji Mahama visited Labiofam, a research institute that deals in a variety of activities such as the biological control of mosquitoes and the production of pesticides and vaccines.
The Enterprise Director, Jose Antonio Castro said the institute was carrying out research to develop a vaccine for Bird Flu.
Vice President Alhaji Mahama expressed the interest of Ghana to co-operate with the institute to eradicate mosquitoes, adding that treatment of malaria in Ghana had led to the loss of huge sums of money.
From Sheilla Sackey, Havana, Cuba
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