The 2022 version of the Wines of South Africa (WoSA) wine sampling occasion in Ghana has been held in Accra, with an approach Ghanaian chocolate makers to target trade markets.
The wine sampling occasion, facilitated at Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra, on Saturday, July 16, 2022, was coordinated by WoSA in a joint effort with the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA).
Addressing citinewsroom.com, the CEO of GEPA, Dr. Afua Asabea Asare, said the organization is expected to advance both Ghana and South Africa as top notch makers of chocolates and wine, individually, while assisting with helping intra-mainland exchange under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
As per her, beside the 3 significant chocolate sending out organizations in Ghana; Cocoa Processing Company, Niche Cocoa and Fair Afric Ghana, GEPA is helping in the space of limit working in the quickly developing high quality area, with more than 30 organizations delivering imaginative items.
Dr. Asabea Asare expressed that GEPA supported individuals from the Cocoa Value Addition Artisans Association of Ghana (COVAAAGh) to partake in roadshow occasions in Lagos and Accra on the fourteenth and sixteenth of July 2022, separately.
Dr. Afua Asabea Asare (GEPA CEO)
She added that GEPA is setting up the cooperation of the business in the headliner to be held in South Africa as well as the Salon du Chocolat Fair in France, all booked to occur in the not so distant future.
"In 2021, GEPA coordinated and upheld the business to partake in Salon du Chocolat in Paris. Uninvolved of the fair, GEPA coordinated an exchange and venture fair in Paris to additionally elevate our chocolate industry to financial backers," she said.
She said GEPA has distinguished chocolates and the whole handled cocoa esteem chain as one of the need items in the National Export Development Strategy (NEDS) which was sent off by the Ministry of Trade and Industry in 2020.
NEDS, being initiated by GEPA, means to change Ghana's conventional crude items based economy into a serious product drove industrialized economy equipped for creating income of no less than $25.3 billion continuously 2029.
Internationally acclaimed as a top notch maker of cocoa, providing approximately a fourth of the world's cocoa beans, Ghana, presently procures under $2 billion out of the almost $140 billion chocolate industry in light of its low ability to handle cocoa beans into chocolates and other high-esteem cocoa items.
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