The Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana CAG has paid a courtesy call on the new Turkish Ambassador. The visit was to officially introduce the Chamber to the Ambassador, discuss the opportunities in Ghana’s agriculture sector and collaborative strategies aimed at promoting and strengthening agribusiness trade between Ghana and Turkey.
Chief Executive Officer of CAG, Farmer Anthony Morrison in his introductory remarks congratulated the Ambassador and his government on wining their election, and expressed his condolences on the earthquake that struck the country, claiming thousands of lives.
Farmer Morrison noted that though a cordial relationship exists between the Chamber and the Turkey since 2015, which has led to some trade tours to Turkey engaging several Turkish businesses with the prospects of engaging in businesses in Ghana, there is the need to properly profile these businesses for proper due diligence checks.
He noted that due to Turkey’s high technological capabilities, the Chamber’s focus will be on finding ways to develop trade in areas of skills and knowledge transfer under agricultural technology, agro processing among others. “In areas of industry, we are opened to embrace a lot of Turkish companies, government has One District One factory, as one of its projects, so there are lots of opportunities for Turkish agro processing companies to tap into our agro processing industry and other value addition ventures” he added.
He mentioned Ghana’s cashew, mango, coffee , cocoa and citrus, as some of the strongest industries in Africa, and areas that should be tapped into for development whiles exploring Turkey’s strong poultry, livestock and wheat bran industry to improve on Ghana’s agricultural sector.
Farmer Morrison advocated the design of a more deliberate and strategic trade summit that is geared towards connecting and bringing together businesses and investors from both countries to promote and deepen trade between Ghana and Turkey. In this light, he added that the Chamber will set up a trade facilitation desk to promote information sharing and trade between Ghana and Turkey.
The Turkish Ambassador to Ghana, Hüseyin Güngör who received the team mentioned agriculture and technology as the two key areas of partnership his outfit will be focusing on.
According to him, discussions are underway with the University of Ghana, School of Agriculture for a capacity building program for students.
He commended the Chamber for the visit so reiterate the importance to continuing partner with the embassy on Agribusiness to promote the economy.
