President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo commissioned the GH6.7 million Sefwi Akontombra rice processing factory on Sunday, September 5, 2021, as part of his two-day tour of the Western-North Region.
The rice factory is a cutting-edge rice facility capable of producing 1.5 to 2.8 tonnes of processed rice per hour. Modern parboiling, milling, and packaging plants have been installed at the factory.
It has a backup generator plant and a mechanised borehole for water supply. It also includes fully furnished office space for staff, a conference room, a laboratory, and a canteen/kitchen.
The Sefwi Akontombra Rice Factory was built as part of the Rural Enterprises Programme’s 1-District-1-Factory Common User Facility (CUF), which is an agro-industrial factory (REP)
The Sefwi Akontombra Rice Factory was built as part of the 1-District-1-Factory Common User Facility (CUF), an agro-industrial factory established by the Ministry of Trade and Industry’s Rural Enterprises Programme (REP).
According to President Akufo-Addo, the factory will employ 118 people, including management professionals, factory floor workers, and plantation workers who will work on a nucleus rice farm.
Furthermore, over 600 farmers from the Sefwi Akontombra District and surrounding communities will be directly employed to supply paddy rice for processing.
The Rural Enterprises Programme (REP) has established five (5) of these CUFs across the country with funding from the African Development Bank.
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The 1D1F CUF factories are located in Savelugu (rice processing); Nkran Nkwanta in the Bono Region’s Dormaa West District (rice processing); Akontombra in the Western North Region’s Sefwi Akontombra District (rice processing); Dompim in the Western Region’s Tarkwa Nsueam Municipality (Oil Palm processing); and Nsuta in the Ashanti Region’s Sekyere Central District (Maize processing).
Farmers’ organisations and other value chain actors in the selected commodities are expected to own the Sefwi Akontombra CUF.
The CUFs will be managed by top-tier management professionals and technicians recruited competitively by the Ministry of Trade and Industry via REP to ensure the factory’s profitability and growth.
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