5.7bn Cedi Cassava Plant Established
A 5.7 billion-cedi cassava processing plant has been established at Tano-Dumase in the Ashanti Region to produce starch for export.
The plant, that has the capacity to produce 50 bags of gari a day and five tonnes of starch a day, would employ more than 2,000 people including farmers, factory workers and staff.
The Managing Director of Tano-Dumase Cassava Processing Company, Mr Edward Forkuo Kyei announced this at a durbar of chiefs and people of Tano-Dumase.
He said the company had already acquired a large tract of land both within and outside the district to cultivate cassava to feed the plant while a marketing survey had also yielded positive results for the company's products outside the country.
Mr Kyei, a citizen of the town, said the government alone could not provide jobs for the ever-increasing number of unemployed youth in the country hence his company's effort at creating jobs for the people in the area.