The Honorary Consul of Ghana in Thailand, Dr. Sicha Singsomboon, has given a agency assurance that her nation was able to help Ghana in its quest to commercialise rice manufacturing.
She mentioned Thailand’s help for Ghana in rice manufacturing will come within the type of switch of know-how, seed improvement, packaging to growing yields.
She gave the reassurance on Thursday, December 29, 2022, at a reception dinner organised by the Jospong Group of Companies, for a delegation of buyers from Thailand.
The dinner was geared toward welcoming the Thailand delegation for the graduation of the Ghana-Thailand rice collaboration venture.
According to Dr. Sicha Singsomboom, it will likely be her pleasure to see Ghana upscale her rice manufacturing, intimating that Ghana has the potential in that regard.
She mentioned not solely will the collaboration between the 2 nations result in improve in rice manufacturing, but additionally will present Ghanaians concerned in agriculture some technical know-how.
The Advisor to the Honorary Consul, Thailand and Project Director, Dr. Vinnie Kumsomboon, mentioned as a part of the venture, some Ghanaian agriculture college students can be sponsored to Thailand to study Thailand’s approach of rising rice to reinforce manufacturing.
Earlier, in a welcome handle, the Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong, pressured that the partnership was a dream come true.
He allayed fears of market gamers, saying that “Jospong is not going to re-invent the wheel but rather to augment rice production in Ghana.”
He was, subsequently, hopeful the partnership will take off efficiently and inure to the good thing about Ghana in a number of methods.
He recounted what motivated him to journey to Thailand which culminated within the institution of an organization in Thailand known as Asia-Africa Cooperation, including that this firm was chargeable for the fashioning out of this historic partnership.
He mentioned his journey to Thailand was necessitated by the declaration by H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that by the center of June, there can be restrictions on the importation of fruit juice, poultry, rice amongst others.
He famous that this was additionally highlighted within the 2023 price range assertion by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.
“And so we at Jospong took up the challenge. As an entrepreneur, what we look out for is solving problems so we visited rice farms, rice mills, seed development centres, rice research centres, technical institutions and the Thailand Exim Bank who has promised to offer a whopping $160 million to support the project,” he disclosed.
He mentioned the journey gave delivery to the Asia-Africa Cooperation Company in Thailand, which led within the signing of a memorandum of understanding to make sure that wherever doable in Ghana, rice must be produced offered water is accessible.
“The idea of Jospong in the rice sector is not to compete but to support the production of rice in the country,” he affirmed.
According to him, groups have been shaped who’ve toured all of the 16 areas of Ghana to establish the type of technical know-how to switch.
Present on the occasion was the Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Yaw Frimpong Addo, who pledged his ministry’s readiness to help in each kind crucial to grasp the Ghana-Thailand rice venture.
The Member of Parliament for Juaboso, who can also be the CEO of Akando Rice, Chairman of the Ghana Rice Inter-Professional Body, Nana Adjei Ayeh II, and the Coordinating Director-Technical and Programme Director, Ghana Cares, Obaatanpa Programme on the Ministry of Finance, Ms. Eva Esselba Mends, all assured Jospong of their unflinching help.
The event was additionally used to launch two necessary initiatives geared toward safeguarding the atmosphere. First, was the launch of the Save Planet Agro Economy Development Association to make sure the manufacturing of rice, seed improvement, analysis amongst others, after which the second, was the Thai-Ghana Business Chamber.
