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Ghana: Fruit processing companies look offshore for fruits

25 Friday Oct 2013

Posted by theinvesmentman in ACCRA, Africa, Asamankese, banks, Blue Skies, Burkina Faso, Business, Costa Rica, European Union, Export, Federal government of the United States, Fruit, Get rich quick, Ghana, investment, Nsawam, Real estate, Residential area, Tema, Uncategorized, United States, United States government, usa

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Antony Sedzro (Ghanaian journalist)

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Ghana’s pineapple production and exports have slumped to the lowest in nine years, throwing more than 500,000 people, mostly farmers out of job.

Not only has the situation denied the country the millions of dollars it used to receive in foreign exchange, the economy has lost some fruit processing companies, with the surviving ones struggling to get raw materials to process.

Processing companies such as Blue Skies, HPW, Peelco and Pinora have had to import more than half of their raw materials such as mangoes, pineapples and papaya (pawpaw) as they struggle to source them locally.

Other processing companies in Adeiso in the Eastern Region, Nsawam, Asamankese and Tema have all folded up for lack of raw materials that can make them competitive.

Industry value chain actors told the GRAPHIC BUSINESS newspaper that the worsening condition was due to the lack of financing for cultivation, low quality inputs, especially pineapple suckers and the age-old challenge of the country not adapting quickly to a new variety now preferred in Europe, the MD2, developed by Costa Rica.

An acre of pineapple farm requires between GH¢8,000 and GH¢9,000 to cultivate. This has put the thousands of farmers out of the farm, even though there is huge market for fresh pineapples and other horticultural produce locally and internationally.

Currently, the country only exports about 35,000 tonnes of pineapple a year, with exporters reducing from 50 in 2004 to about 15. Employment in the industry has significantly slumped from about 600,000 to about 60,000.

Chief Agronomist at Blue Skies, Mr Ernest Abloh and the Head of Administration and Control at HPW Fresh and, Mr James Obeng, told the GRAPHIC BUSINESS in separate interviews that their sources of fruits to supplement what they get locally were Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin

Mr Abloh said Blue Skies had just sealed a deal to air-lift 120 tonnes of mangoes a week from Brazil for 10 weeks, mainly due to inadequate local supplies and from the sub-region, especially during the crop’s off seasons.

GRAPHIC BUSINESS newspaper investigations revealed that the lack of credit is the principal challenge facing the industry, since pineapple cultivation is capital intensive.

Blue Skies, which has the capacity to process 30 tonnes of fresh pineapple a day for export, is only doing 20 tonnes a day. Last month, the company laid of over 400 workers due to lack of raw materials for off peak production.

HPW, a Swiss company which used to export fresh fruits from Ghana, had to make a hard U-turn to dry fruits – pineapple, mango and coconut.

“Ghana’s fruit industry consists of a huge amount of small farmers often with a weak set-up and very few large and professional fruit growers/exporters. Our demand of more than 6,000 tonnes of fresh fruit is substantial for the industry,” top company officials told the GRAPHIC BUSINESS at the factory at Adeiso.

Exports of fresh pineapples reached the highest in 2004 with 71,000 tonnes a year, making Ghana the second largest exporter of the produce, after Cote d’Ivoire. These exports raked in approximately US$50 million to private sector exporters.

The Director of Export Marketing and Quality Awareness Project, (EMQAP) Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Mr Mawuli Agboka, told the GRAPHIC BUSINESS that although finance was a challenge for the farmers, the project was making very holistic intervention in the horticultural sub-sector.

According to Mr Abloh, the company cited its operations at the current location because of proximity to raw materials, but with time, productivity had dipped, particularly after the world demand shifted to MD2 from the smooth cayenne that Ghana used to export.

He said the company got its extra fruits from other countries, but had started “a vertically integration” to produce its own raw materials.

“We didn’t want to go into production ourselves, but now we have to do it. We already cultivate all our raw material needs for passion fruit,” Mr Abloh said.

Infrastructure abandoned

Huge edifices of pack houses and cold chains constructed in some pineapple and mango growing areas with grant from the United States government are lying idle, with the low productivity.

Some farmers have also converted their farms to grow other crops or sold them for estate development.

This is prevalent in Samsam, a village near Nsawam, where the GRAPHIC BUSINESS found some farmlands turned into sand winning pits or for the construction of residential property.

Centre of excellence

The GRAPHIC BUSINESS gathered the industry has no centre of excellence to bring best practice to the industry including tissue culture, multiplication of planting materials and other specialised studies.

Blue Skies has built one ultra-modern centre of excellence for mango, but until now the Ministry of Agriculture has not posted scientists and other personnel to make the centre functional.

Currently, the fresh fruit company has its own centre of excellence with which it supports its out-growers.

But the Director of EMQAP said the project had a number of interventions to increase productivity and make best practice part of the horticultural sub-sector.

He said the seven-year EMQAP project was tackling infrastructure, technology, provision of inputs and technology to support the industry.

For example, to make pineapple planting materials available, EMQAP was helping four farmer groups in the Ga West and Akwapim South districts to multiplicate planting materials.

The project has given each group 44,000 plantlets which could be multiplied six times as well as inputs. This intervention is expected to affect over 200 farmers.

Mr Agboka said EMQAP was also supporting the Crop Research Institute in the Ashanti Region to do maintenance breeding of selected crops under the project.

The project has also spearheaded the enactment of the Plant and Fertiliser Act, Act 803, 2010, which among other things, allows for certification of nursaries and vegetative planting materials for the country.

“We certified eight planting material producers in 2011. This is to ensure that we have quality planting materials on the market,” Mr Agboka stated.

The project director, however, agrees that beyond the direct intervention by the project, there was also the need for creating a pipeline of financial support, through public-private partnerships, to enable the farmers access finance to cultivate their produce.

He believes that Ghana had much more favourable conditions to do far better in pineapple and other horticultural produce than Costa Rica which currently leads in the sector.

History and Potential of Pineapples

Horticultural produce from Ghana has shown a lot of promise over the years. The country has been involved in the export of horticultural exports since the 1980s. Exports rose quickly from US$28 million in 2000 to US$75 million by 2006, with a lot of potential at hand, with mangoes, pineapples and chilies showing firmer promise.

Statistics indicate that there are about €1 billion worth of pineapple market; €3.5 billion for bananas and US$250 million, all in the European Union alone.

Ghana’s pineapple exports blossomed in the 1990s when pineapple exports formed an association and reached an agreement with a vessel to lift fresh produce from Ghana, after visiting Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire.

The twice a week lifting accelerated exports of fresh pineapples and other horticultural produce. Pineapple exports, thus rose from a few tonnes a week to 71,000 tonnes in 2004. The exports started slumping very fast when Costa Rica introduced the much sweeter MD2 pineapple which caught on well in the EU market.

This caused the market for Ghana’s variety, the smooth cayenne, to plummet to the current low levels of 35,000 tonnes in 2012.

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Gold, cocoa dip in revenues calls for focus on NTEs

23 Wednesday Oct 2013

Posted by theinvesmentman in ACCRA, Africa, AngloGold Ashanti, Bank of Ghana, banks, Business, Ecobank, Export, Get rich quick, Ghana, Ghana cedi, Gold as an investment, investment, Mining, Newmont Ghana, South Africa, Uncategorized, United States, usa, West Africa, World Bank

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Antony Sedzro (Ghanaian journalist)

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The World Bank in its latest report is warning Ghana of huge drop in export earnings as a result of falling prices of gold and cocoa. The bank based its predictions on the huge fall in prices of the two commodities in the coming months.

The development has already affected revenue from these commodities. The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana, the country’s central bank, in July released figures to show that export earnings from gold for the first half of 2013 was estimated at US$2.7 billion, compared to US$3.2 billion in the same period in 2012, fall of about 16%. This fall is attributable to lower prices and volumes.

The price of gold on the international market has fallen from a high of about $1,700 in November 2012 to a low of $1,200 in the middle of this year. This is the highest fall in the value of the precious metal in thirty years.

Gold is Ghana’s main foreign exchange earner and the country is Africa’s second biggest producer behind South Africa. The fall in the world market price of the commodity has equally hit mining companies in the country.

Anglogold Ashanti, which operates one of the biggest mines in Ghana, has started the process of laying off about 430 of its mine workers. Newmont Ghana will cut at least 300 jobs in a bid to manage costs more efficiently, directors of the company said last month. Other mining firms have cut back on new mining projects in Ghana, West Africa’s second biggest economy.
During the boom in commodity prices, Ghana last year produced 4.3 million ounces of gold in 2012, a record for the country. Artisanal (small-scale) mining, which contributes about 30% to the country’s total production annually, also blossomed and saw the attraction of thousands of Chinese miners who mined illegally. A public outcry against the presence of Chinese miners led to a security crackdown on their operations. But even the artisanal miners have seen a sharp drop in their activities due to the steep fall in the precious metal’s price.

In a contribution on how this fall in revenue on the country’s economy can be remedied in the long term, respected Ghanaian economist, Dr. Joe Abbey, has revealed that concentrating on Non-traditional Exports (NTEs) could help address the expected challenge in the long term.

“So there is no choice for us but to look at the factors that determine the quality and cost of producing in this country. Oil may save something for us now, but we need to go beyond oil and get to non-commodity-based thing.”

Ghana produces and exports pineapples, oranges, bananas, cashew nuts, and others. These are normally produced by small-holder farmers with very low production capacity but with enormous potentially if supported financially.
For many years, the country has depended on hard currencies earned from exports from gold and cocoa to finance imports and shore up the local currency’s value.
The fall in price of gold and cocoa has also adversely affected Ghana’s currency, the Ghana cedi.
To stem this trend, Dr. Abbey, states that with less earnings from exports and an less controlled imports, “the Bank of Ghana would have to draw down on its holding of foreign exchange to meet the gaps”.
In spite of Ghana’s political stability, the Ghana cedi is currently the second most depreciated currency in Africa, according to the latest Ecobank report on the performance of currencies in Africa.
The report puts the cedi’s rate of depreciation at 14.5%.

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Ghana: Non-traditional Exports hits $3.3bn

18 Friday Oct 2013

Posted by theinvesmentman in ACCRA, Africa, Agriculture, banks, Business, European Union, Export, Get rich quick, Ghana, Government, Haruna Iddrisu, investment, Kasoa, Uncategorized, United States, usa

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Antony Sedzro (Ghanaian journalist)

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This Blog is sponsored by http://www.reflexecogroup.com

Ghana expects to make more than $3.3 billion as earnings from non-traditional exports for this year.

The projected income is an improvement on last year’s earnings of $2.3 billion.

The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) which supervises non-traditional exports says it has so far earned 12% more than what it had during the same period last year.

Chief Executive, Gideon Boye Quarcoo, told local media that the projected improvements from non-traditional export has also been influenced by progress made in the global economic recovery.

He said a dip in Tuna exports last year resulted in last year’s figures, noting that “when you have less coming from tuna which is a big winner your numbers go down”.

He indicated also that the availability of funds from banks and other funding institutions has brought about added value from local products enabling it to earn more in exports.

Mr. Quarcoo also adds that they are on track to hit their 5 billion dollar target in the next four years because the service sector has been booming.

In June this year, Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, Ghana’s Minister of Trade and Industry announced that the total value of non-traditional exports was expected to increase to $5 billion between mid-year 2015 to end of 2016. Mr. Iddrisu was speaking at the inauguration of a nine-member Board for the re-launched Ayensu Starch Company Limited in Kasoa, in the country’s Central Region. The Starch Factory produces cassava on a large scale for domestic and export markets.

Consequently, Government would aggressively support agricultural production, growth of horticultural and other vegetable crops as well as shore up small out-grower farming schemes countrywide to meet the target, he added.

The Minister expressed optimism that the target would be achieved, adding that, stronger collaboration between the Ministry of Trade and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture is expected to guarantee the desired goal of increasing export to improve the country’s terms and balance of trade.

He said Ghana was under obligation to improve her export standards to meet the European Union requirements, particularly in the area of cocoa. Cocoa is the main ingredient for making chocolate.

Meanwhile, statistics for the first eight months of 2013 have shown major shifts in the structure of Ghana’s export revenue base.

Whereas gold still remains Ghana’s highest export earner despite this year’s price slump – from a high, early this year, of US$1,600 to US$1,300 currently – on the global market, cocoa has slid from being Ghana’s traditional second, or sometimes even highest export earner to the fourth position due to production problems and a fall in price.

Crude oil, which the country started producing less than three years ago, has become Ghana’s second highest export earner – a spot it has occupied since 2012. Non-traditional exports (NTEs), however has this year overtaken cocoa as Ghana’s third highest export earner.

In 2012, gold was Ghana’s highest export earner netting US$5,643 billion. Crude oil was next in line with export earnings of US$2,976 billion. Cocoa followed closely at US$2,828 while NTEs earned Ghana US$2,362.

Earnings from gold declined by 12.6% to US$3.4 billion in the first eight months of this year as compared to the same period last year while cocoa exports also fell by 21.4% to US$1.4.

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Ghana Needs $600m To Implement Nat’l Export Strategy

21 Wednesday Aug 2013

Posted by theinvesmentman in ACCRA, Africa, Agricultural Investment Fund, banks, Business, Export, GDP, Get rich quick, Ghana, Government, Gross domestic product, Haruna Iddrisu, International Business and Trade, International standard, investment, Minister of Trade, Ministry of Trade, Ministry of Trade & Industry, MOTI, Uncategorized

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by Cephas Larbi (Local Journalist)

The Director of Export Trade at the Ministry of Trade and Industries (MOTI), Gerald Nyarko-Mensah has revealed that Ghana needs an investment capital of $600 million to implement the National Export Strategy.

He said the strategy, when implemented, would among other things, build the capacity of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority and the Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies to diversify export and increase Non-Traditional Exports (NTEs).

Nyarko-Mensah, who was speaking at the launch of the national export strategy and the national export development programme, said MOTI intends to increase the country’s non-traditional export from the current export value of $2.64 billion to $5 billion by 2017.

He said the strategy would put Ghana on the global map as a world-class exporter of competitive products and services to promote sustainable environmental development and improve the balance in spatial and regional development.

Mr Nyarko-Mensah said the policy would also strengthen and resource export-related institutions to ensure every district obtains at least one significant commercial viable agro-based export product.

He said Ghana would no longer depend solely on export commodities but over the period invest in fresh and processed fish, vegetable oil, root crops, grains and legumes, natural rubber and products of the creative arts.

This, he said, would boost the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Trade and Industry, said government is committed to boosting the country’s non-traditional export sector.

He said Ghanaian exporters are unable to add value to their products to meet international standards.

Hon. Iddrisu advised them to produce quality products to meet international market standards.

He indicated that government had started a process to equip Export Development and Agricultural Investment Fund to enhance agricultural growth.

The Minister said the government would give stimulus packages to some medium-scale enterprises beginning next year, stating that when the country improves the export trade, it would have a significant impact on the balance of trade deficit.

Alhaji Abdul Basit Fuseini, Deputy Northern Regional Minister, indicated that the region had positioned itself as a strategic destination for business, noting that the area is no longer considered a conflict zone.

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MOTI To Relax Ban On Scrap

31 Wednesday Jul 2013

Posted by theinvesmentman in ACCRA, Africa, Business, Ferrous, Get rich quick, Ghana, investment, Scrap, Uncategorized

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by Samuel Boadi (Local journalist)

When Parliament resumes in October 2013, a revised ferrous scrap export bill will be laid before it for consideration and approval.

This will pave way for the legal exportation of ferrous scrap on justifiable grounds.

A press release issued yesterday in Accra by the Ministry of Trade & Industry (MOTI), which stated this, said scrap metal rejected by the steel companies but needed abroad would be included.

The export will also be for environmental improvement purposes.

The development followed a meeting held yesterday between Minister of Trade and Industry, Haruna Iddrisu, steel manufacturing companies, foundries, scrap dealers and members of the ferrous scrap metal monitoring committee.

The minister directed the steel companies to pay the scrap dealers within a period not exceeding 21 days after the supply of the goods for various reasons.

The decisions were taken at the meeting as part of measures to streamline the demand and supply of ferrous scraps in the country.

Mr Iddrisu said he decided to review LI2201 to grant the legal exportation of ferrous scrap.

He therefore tasked the Monitoring Committee to come out with proper records of export of ferrous scrap before and after the ban.

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