The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has assured Zoomlion Ghana Limited of the government’s support to ensure that they produce quality organic fertiliser on a large scale to help bridge the gap of the shortage of inorganic fertilisers in the country.
According to the sector MInister, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Zoomlion, with its recycling and compost plants, dotted across the country, has the capacity to produce organic fertiliser on a large scale to feed “our farmers.”
The minister gave the assurance while addressing journalists after touring the Accra Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP), a facility owned by Zoomlion, at Adjen Kotoku in the Greater Accra Region on Wednesday, June 1, 2022.
He was accompanied by some senior officers of the ministry.
The two-hour tour afforded the mInister and his team the chance to learn first hand about the operations of ACARP in general, but with particular interest to its organic fertiliser production.
Visiting the plant for the first time, the agriculture minister was highly impressed, especially with ACARP’s organic fertiliser production process , adding that “I am confident Zoomlion with this capacity will be able to help bridge the fertiliser shortage in the country.”
“Zoomlion as the leading company in organic fertiliser production in the country has a huge potential to produce quality organic fertilisers to address the global fertiliser shortage which has hit Ghana,” he noted.