Accra, Nov 30, - The Ministry of
Trade and Industry will soon introduce a pre-Christmas trade show in Osu Oxford
Street to display made-in-Ghana goods and services, Mr Carlos Kingsley
Ahenkorah, the Deputy Sector Minister has said.
He said the sales show was to
give opportunity to exhibitors to showcase their products in preparation of the
country’s International Trade Fair slated from February 28 to March 7, 2018 on
the theme “Industrialisation Ghana, Creating Jobs”.
The Deputy Minister, who made the
announcement in Accra at the launch of the 22nd Ghana International Trade Fair,
urged Ghanaians to have confidence in products produced locally to boost the
economy.
According to Mr Ahenkorah,
government had designed policy reforms to make the country the most
business-friendly nation in Africa to accelerate socio-economic development and
prosperity for all.
“As part of that, government has
outlined a 10-point agenda to transform the industrial sector of the national
economy to create job opportunities for the unemployed youth.”
He enumerated other initiatives
including introduction of strategic anchor industrial initiatives to create new
growth poles for the Ghanaian economy, establishment of industrial parks and
special economic zones in at least one of the ten regions and promoting small
and medium-scale enterprise development.
Others are; establishment of an
industrial sub-contracting expo that would link a certain need of supply chain
of large-scale enterprises, promote export diversification with particular
emphasis on non-traditional exports, improve domestic retail trade and promote
domestically manufactured goods.
He charged management of the
Centre to pursue government transformation agenda and institute weekly trade
shows to make the Centre active.
Dr Agnes Adu, the Chief Executive
Officer of the Centre, said over the past decades, the Trade Fair Centre had
made strides and provided small to medium size companies the platform for large
scale, and gave 500 companies to find local and foreign partners.
Dr Adu said the Centre in
collaboration with government’s one district, one factory initiative,
exhibitors and partners will get the opportunity to interact with small, medium
and large –scale companies under the flagship programme.
She said the initiative provided
opportunity to introduce exhibitors brand and products to emerging and existing
companies currently enrolled in the 216 district industrialisation programme.
She said the Trade Fair grounds
would undergo a complete redevelopment in 2018 with an International Convention
Centre to serve as the anchor in the 200-acre mixed-use project planned for the
existing site.
“Our goal is to make the Centre
the trade hub in West Africa and the preferred trading destination for our
global partners,” she added.
GNA
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