The chairman of the Trade and Industry Committee of Parliament, Kingsley Carlos Ahenkorah has said the Komenda Sugar Factory could not have produced raw sugar due to the absence of its 37 components. He said the price waterhouse firm valued the factory at $12 million in 2017 and went further to establish that, about 37 […]
The Komenda Sugar Factory (KSF) will start the processing of unrefined sugar, molasses until it is able to grow raw materials on its own to feed the plant. Management has almost concluded arrangements to import molasses to refine at the factory. The refining of sugar would augment processing of sugar from local farmers who would […]
President Akufo-Addo has promised the people of the Central Region that government would operationalise the Komenda Sugar Factory in the first quarter of 2022. The $35 million factory, built from an Indian Exim Bank facility, has not worked since its commissioning in 2016. The factory was revamped to revive the local production of sugar, thereby […]
The Paramount Chief of Komenda Traditional Area, Nana Kojo Kru II says he never saw and tasted samples of the Komenda sugar allegedly produced after the commissioning of the Factory under former President John Mahama. “I didn’t see any sugar, whether blue or white. They didn’t bring some to my palace, and up till date, […]
The Government of Ghana has finally handed over the Komenda Sugar Factory to a Strategic Investor. Park Aggrotech Company Limited, an Indian company based in Ghana and a subsidiary of the Skylark Group of companies won the bid to manage the sugar factory. The Managing Director of Agrotech Company Limited is Lalit Mishra. The factory […]
The Hi limit Group, developers of government’s one village one dam programme has signed a purchase agreement to revive the defunct Komenda sugar factory. Under the agreement, The Hi Limit Group will produce 375,000 metric tonnes of sugar cane annually to feed the sugar factory. The agreement signed under the auspices of the Ministry of […]
