The president of the republic has recounted that the industrial development of the rice processing industry In savelugu will be the beginning of job creation for the people and its environs.
He made this known in response to an appeal by Yoo Naa Yakubu Abdulai Andani V, chief of savelugu traditional area, during the president’s working visit to the region over the weekend.
President Nana Akufo-Addo on Saturday, 7th August 2021, commissioned the Savelugu rice processing factory at Savelugu in the Northern Region.
The 1D1F Common User Facility(CUF) is an Agro-industrial factory establishment by the Rural Enterprise Programme (REP) under the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI).
The Common User Facility(CUF) concept was conceived in 2017 following a policy direction by MOTI to realign to REP to be consistent with the government of Ghana industrial transformation agenda.
The model seeks to enhance the ability of agricultural value chain actors with low or no financial wherewithal to own individual or group processing facilities in line with the 1D1F initiative.
In all, the center is expected to employ a total of 118 people including management professionals, factory floor workers and plantation workers to work on the nucleus farm.
Additionally, over 600 farmers from savelugu municipality and its neighboring communities will be directly engaged to supply paddy rice for processing.
The president noted that seeing the overlord of Dagbon, and the Yoo Naa as well as the Mion Lana both sitting in state in a Dagbon which is now in peace, is an achievement long expected.
He made an assurance that all the Assistance provided to restore peace in Dagbon will be forthcoming to make sure that the peace being enjoyed is sustained.
Source:Fiilafmonline/ShawanaYussif
