The President of the Federation of Association of Ghana Exporters (FAGE), Davies Korbo, has advised the food processors to directly contact the registered production association to purchase raw materials from them.
He mentioned this during the launch of the CIB Ghana Dried Fruits Project at Accra. According to him, producing quality products is the hallmark of every company, and to achieve this in the food industry, the processors should contact the associations for quality raw materials.
Traceability is very important in production, and purchasing raw materials from the registered associations aids in tracing the bad nuts from the good ones.
Answering the question on the unwillingness to deal with the producers who purchase small quantity of the raw materials from the associations, he said there is no registered association who will not be willing to sell his produce to a processor.
For instance, he said no registered association would be unwilling to sell six (6) tonnes of farm produce to a processor.
He urged all processors to make quality products as their hallmark.
