We got $10m for The EKUMFI Factory, under the Government's 1D1F initiative... part 2

PART 2 OF I left ITALY to become a PINEAPPLE FARMER in GHANA....
The Ekumfi Fruits and Juices Company Limited, headed by FREDRICK KOBBYNA ACQUAAH and partners, was the first factory President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo inaugurated at Ekumfi under the One-District-One-Factory in 2017.
The facility is the biggest fruits processing factory in West Africa, with the capacity to process 10 tons of fruits per hour.
Funded by the Exim Bank Ghana Limited, the agric-industrial intervention has significantly gingered the spirit of entrepreneurship.
Mr Frederick Acquah, the Director of Operations at the facility, allayed the fears of the public that there will be lack of reliable raw materials supply to support production saying “we have a very strong raw material supply base that would significantly create 1000 direct jobs and 6000 indirect jobs in the district and beyond.”
Per the company’s five-year strategy vision, it is cultivating more than 4,000 acres of pineapples in many communities in the district as well as in the neighboring districts that would in all, produce 80 million fruits per annum for the processing line.
It has also projected 600 acres per year, in preparing to switchgear to the next phase of cultivation that would see the expansion of its raw material base up to the projected 4,000 acres needed to feed the factory at full capacity.
The company also seeks to expand and sustain its 19 shared-grower sites established in Ekumfi Nanaben, Narkwa, Abor, Eyisam, Otuam, Egyaakwa, Asaman, and Gyankoma.
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[@Goddesswstrn]

🇬🇭🙌🏾🇬🇭 between U guys at #Odana Network & Mr Wode Maya you are truly putting Ghana on a desirable map 🇬🇭🇬🇭🖤💖

[@0382isaac]

very true

[@mamapigfarmghana2505]

Let's produce and buy made in Ghana , please add mango to it . We shall all come and help thanks

[@madstarr2]

So glad to hear Ekumfi is organic and they are not depleting their soils of minerals with a bunch of chemicals!

[@nyamekye1617]

Pls get your basic agronomy and plant nutrition right. With time, yield and quality will decline. Because the minerals in the soil is basically what they're removing through the tasty and juicy pineapples. If you don't feed the soil, it can't support production with time ... this is called sustainability! I can agree with you when it comes to insecticide/pesticides or herbicides/weedicides. However, fertilizers are not necessarily dangerous, if the right source/product is used in the right amount/quantity/rate, at the right time, and applied at the right place. This is the logic behind all the declining crop yields and quality.

[@2danadem]

What I learn from this video is how natural pineapple juice can replace all the sodas like Coca Cola it just need to be fully advertise.The owner has said his product has been well noted by a doctor, this is the type of message to be put forward stating the virtues of this natural juice. This must be promoted all through Ghana. I am not from Ghana I live in Mauritius which is very far. So go forward Ghana.

[@len1708]

Great 👍 with factories,this tells me Africa is on the move for self again

[@cannotbesaidenough1971]

Reclaiming Africa to be self sufficient. Africa is for Africans. This is what I am talking about. We Africans can do for ourselves. Great content. I love this!!!

[@jojoko64]

Yes, African manufacturing...beautiful.

[@charleyn6558]

Excellent videos both part 1 & 2. It covered the process from initial planting to the final market product. I love it because the juice is natural, healthy and cheaper (at 2GHC/250ml) than the alternatives (imported juices or from drinks from breweries). It also provides local employment. People do not have to leave the area/villages for the cities to find work hence maintaining the cultures and traditions of the area. I also want to give an exceptional praise to the owner/investor who represented the team. He was very humble, well-spoken, educational and came across in a language that every one could understand. How refreshing! I am originally from another African country and have been in the USA for decades. The problem I have had is that, it is difficult to find an individual in the continent who is operating at such a high (multi-million dollars) level without them acting or speaking arrogantly. This was a great interview and it hit all the marks in my book. Excellent work!

[@forextoday8975]

Can we start goat farm i have land already for that

[@AkuaDimples]

Great 2part series. The future is bright in the motherland

[@Star1783AA]

Wow I'm proud of you bro, well done and keep on, bless you bro. Ayekoo proud farmers.

[@afrobeatsplanet]

Beautiful! Ghana is spearheading the industrial revolution in Africa. Reliving Kwame Nkrumah's dream.

[@frommygardentoyou]

Proud of my people. I am praying I will be able to do some farming there. Food security is paramount.

[@DA-qz5rh]

This gives me soooo much joy to see our own prople producing and selling to us. I also hope that the company is thinking about exporting to the other african countries starting with west africa and then spreading out. This would be amazing. Thanks Dentaa. Please pass this information to him, but i am very sure he already has this idea in the planning.

[@isaacgbornor6792]

Great , more farms will be around soon to provide more row materials for processing in the factory on daily bases stay blessed and Ayeekoo to NPP team

[@win-winsuccesstv9215]

It will encourage we those in Abroad to invest back at home

[@win-winsuccesstv9215]

I love the good work Odaana is doing keep showing us the success stories

[@dissydude377]

Now, somebody should tell me why Prez Akuffo Addo is not the president we have been waiting for in a long time. Wow. Thank you sir

[@nanapintoa]

I HAVE TASTED IT AND AWWWW SO REFRESHING AND VERY NATURAL. I RECOMMEND THIS TO ANYONE WHO REALLY WANTS TO HAVE A PURE TASTE OF PINEAPPLE

[@robertagyei3101]

No wonder Mr Acquah is the Operations Director.....he has the technical know how.

[@reclaimgreatness7861]

With my experience in working in factories in Italy.I can tell this guy is an industrialist.The Ghana govt should leverage on him to teach manufacturering in schools. Please send me his contact. Io voglio parlare con lui. Salute.

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[@russellwilliams9299]

How to invest. Who do I contact?

[@reclaimgreatness7861]

@@russellwilliams9299 It's depends on what you want to invest in.

[@jonahdadzie7021]

We needs more factories in Ghana to settle the unemployment rate at the same time we need to support all these businesses to.

[@ebenezerappiah7576]

Over here in the USA they apps where u can contribute the paperwork in Ghana is too long.Make it such a way the ordinary person can contribute to these industries.Eveyone creat account on these apps we conduct business.WORK ON IT FOR US PLZ.

[@leviisrael9896]

It's not even an; "investment in a farm"; it's an investment in our people!!!!!!

[@aromagongo1029]

Thanks again Dentaa for your work into building a bridge between diaspora and home. I am eternally grateful and will meet you one day to properly say "AYEKOOOO". I have already invested in CROPESTATE and looking forward to doing more. 🤝🔥

[@ODANANETWORK]

Our pleasure!

[@loxd3962]

Working in a factory in italy for 10 years, I keep asking myself why my fellow Africans who have leaned alot from italians especially welders, metal mechanics n other great industrial works have not manifested in our own country. I'm proud of this brother cos I know how it is. My main boss is covid positive n if not because of my presence our factory wud be closed but since I can substitute and equally do his works we are still operational. I pray n hope oneday that I can set up my nougat and chocolate factory at home just to help mother Ghana. Kudos Dentaa

[@adjeikofi9583]

Please speed up the process..this is the best time

[@cmmediaofficial5200]

The president said cone.. Just come even if you have an initiative and no land... They'll support you.. I pray you don't make it more than 2years before coming

[@loxd3962]

@@cmmediaofficial5200 I pray so bro.....I have a desire just like this great man to have my own factory

[@christinafoster8746]

I'm soooooo GRATEFUL to be alive at such a time as this to see our people from allover doing GREAT things. NO ONE CAN STOP US NOW!! Please Denta tell me how I can invest from the diaspora. Much gratitude!

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[@nanayaa4286]

For the love of God, I do not understand why we love pathologizing African behaviours. "Africans cannot come together and work together"? You are dealing with people, their egos and of course clashes will ensure. This is a human behaviour not exclusive to Africans. Repeating this lie on such a platform is not only dangerous and irresponsible, it contradicts what this platform is actually trying to achieve which is empowering Africa. How is that to be achieved by repeating these stereotypes?

[@kehindeemiabata4032]

Well said!

[@GoetheSon2]

My dear friend, not everybody has a universal frame of mind- and even for those who do possess such a frame of mind, being mindful of it is not easy - once they open their mouth and start giving opinions on people and society. Most people's talk from what they know and what they have experienced. And that invariably tend to be local - their social group, their neighborhood, their ethnic group, their country. Now if they had had the time to study other societies and countries and read the common thread that runs through the human psyche - selfish impulses, emphasis on the now than the later, etc - they would be more circumspect when it comes to who and what is to be blamed for mishaps/mistakes/corruption, etc. in the societies they are affiliated with. Give people some slack when they make pronouncements about such phenomenon as the African work ethics, psyche, etc. They are working with materials they know; it is unfortunate that that is all they know. Would more education help? What sort of education? Who would set up the curriculum? These are some of questions for sharp, universally-minded brains like yours to tackle and perhaps rid the world of what you call "pathologizing African behaviours."

[@ghsheabutterblacksoap2846]

@@broeisi I agree! I've heard other KZbin content creators (who are W. Africans but living outside the continent) talk about this very issue all the time.

[@nanayaa4286]

@@broeisi You must not pay attention to financial news or you simply judge African the harshest. "For the best interest of their country"? We've experienced financial crisises whereby banks and companies had to be saved by governments with TAXPAYERS' MONEY. Were they thinking of the nation's best interest then? Look at China and what is happening with their richest. Siphoning gross amounts of wealth out of the country. Big corporations hiring top notch lawyers to avoid paying taxes, lobbying politicians to crush labour laws and protection of consumers, etc. etc.etc. Business is about putting your interest first whilst crushing the competition. And guess what, unfortunately bashing has become part of that culture. It is not exclusive to Africans. Have you seen McDonalds and other restaurants/diners going at it on twitter? On the matter of foreign goods being perceived as better? Whose fault that? You going to be blaming African people? After being colonised and designated at the lowest place in the value chain, we had to import all manufactured goods. Ofcourse, you are going to raise citizens who value foreign goods because we never had homegrown manufactured goods. If foreign goods is all that you are accustomed to and if they have worked well, naturally you are going to gravitate towards that. But that mentality will hopefully change with manufacturing taking grounds on the continent. You've got the young generation who are being raised with proud African mentality and this is going to take time. Also, you are really leaving out how foreign companies/government crushed African markets because local companies lacked the funds/investments to compete. So, it is not just that foreign were better, it was because their prices were lower. By the way, "foreign is better" is not exclusive to Africans/Black people. Again, take China or Russian oligarchs as an example. People want something that sets them apart from others, to feel unique and special. Foreign goods play a role in this because not everyone can afford it. My point is, there are explanations for people's behaviours instead of attributing it to our supposed "Africaness". Anyways, at the core of business is :trust no one. Most developed countries have the infrastructures to prevent and settle conflict/disputes which increases trust amongst business partners. The continent is catching up.

[@nanayaa4286]

@@GoetheSon2 You wrote it so eloquently and gracefully and couldn't have said it any better, sir!! You came up with the curriculum yourself, sir. What you described in your reply is what needs to be taught or for people to come to that conclusion. And you are right, it is a learning curve. Thank you for your reply.

[@elizabethtamufor5241]

Amazing fruit and a wonderful project in Africa our motherland. Well done to EKUMFI Brothers for changing lives in Ghana and soon globally. I salute you all for this great opportunity open to investors in the diaspora. Thank you Mrs Dentaa A. for showing Ghana progress to the world. Peace and love.

[@emmanueldadzie2525]

Keep up the Good work. Continue to Improve and Progress, mother Ghana is behind you.

[@ODANANETWORK]

Appreciated

[@kofig3724]

Obaapa Dentaa, you tasted alone without inviting your viewers? That is so unGhanaian 😝😁lol. Anyway PineGinja is my favourite. Ekumfi Juice is the best on the market. Love it.

[@ODANANETWORK]

OH CHARLEYY!!! LMAO ...Next time!

[@WendyWince]

Do happy he is there, maybe stop exporting tomatoes... Keep jobs in Ghana so people are not riding their lives to european countries to work..I Love your black topping shirt, where can I get?

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[@feliciapoku6539]

Interesting 👏

[@connectu2africa155]

Proud of my people and this government

[@SEEAFRIKA]

So sweet to hear how they started their first production juice pressing that hit the market. -How much is the investment or shares needed per investor? -Can none Ghanaian invest as well?

[@ODANANETWORK]

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[@frederickacheampong1699]

Excellent idea..add more fruits...it shall be well

[@princepoku3097]

Absolutely amazing. Love these stories

[@hopetee9739]

Wow.. I love this. Great things happening in the GREAT MOTHER-LAND. I love it!!!👍👍👍

[@ODANANETWORK]

Thanks so much

[@hopetee9739]

@@ODANANETWORK You are welcome. Keep up the good work👍👍💪

[@akwasimensabonsu2899]

Ghana is working again

[@jacquesalberttobbohugo3304]

🙏🏿✊🏿 keep on keeping on.

[@AsodoncoAsodonco]

God bless you with your ideas

[@michaelkamorriba5509]

You are doing a great job. Keep it up. God bless you.

[@kajilai]

Men this is proper industrialization, wow. Go higher y'all

[@tequishamcdearmon9152]

Amazing!

[@blessedpeace1532]

Brilliant 👍

[@tonyadj6994]

WE HAVE TO DRINK PURE AFRICAN JUICES.... THANK YOU MY AFRICAN QUEEN.....

[@Aichabraids]

So great

[@amoawaarthur1220]

Thank God 🙏🙏

[@kwameasimah]

Great video

[@0382isaac]

Interesting, i love what am seeing

[@ernesteghan5704]

Great job but your greatest is proving to our Fisher folks that they can diversify and so create opportunity that enables the sea to rejuvenate it's self . Maybe you will have to do more in this direction as a social corporate effort.Thanks.

[@gia4500]

Great!

[@kwameaboagye940]

Big up to you my brother with your pineapple farm back home in Ghana. Africans are inventors and we shouldn’t be fearfully doubtful, but have self pride.

[@ebhomielenross1317]

So nice

[@HonorineS]

So, you make my mouth water again.🙄 I am coming!!!!

[@mayvsgood5427]

I tried it and loved it ☺️

[@Bmaxtv1]

He need to recycle ♻️ the juice box before some dirty people grows it anyhow on streets

[@dadohsolbrig2129]

Wow very inspirational, proud of you guys brother to share your story. Good job sista you are amazing

[@nanaama1807]

God bless your good intentions

[@rosemond1644]

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 Sounds good to me you go ghana.

[@jamesasamoa9055]

GREAT!!!!!!!

[@mercyfrost288]

Beautiful Dentaa,,good job..you bring hard working Ghanians to the world..welldone .👏✌👍🌺🌹🌻😘

[@ODANANETWORK]

Thank you so much

[@degeneral2583]

I’m highly impressed and interested in the farming investment. How do I contact him for more information

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[@aboaboyahciciniko7132]

👌👌

[@kakfynn]

Adding value , love it

[@shadrackollennu1199]

Very nice and healthy 👏 👍 👌 😊

[@user-vj1kg6kt4u]

WAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWW!!!! AFTER CHOCOLATE, FRUIT JUICES MADE IN GHANA!!! ONE GOOD NEW AFTER ANOTHER!!! PLEASE ADD MORE PRODUCTS ON THE LIST!!! AND THEY WILL BE BIO WAOOOOOOOOOW!!! 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👌❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Melodious-Speech]

Thanks fr sharing the knowledge 🙏🏿🙏🏿 from drcongo 🇨🇩

[@kwakuosei9652]

Nice 👍 work bro and ur crew

[@ODANANETWORK]

Thanks ✌️

[@lafete6863]

I drink this everyday. Best juice in Ghana 🔥🔥🔥🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭

[@remy1717]

I would like to know how did he acquire the competence.

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[@kwantwi-barimahedmund2490]

A lot is happening on Sere HeHe TV its amazing search

[@salieujallow9112]

Ghana government must to build smart cities with high skylines and good roads and create jobs for the people of Ghana

[@connectu2africa155]

How do we invest ? If we want to

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[@connectu2africa155]

ODANA NETWORK sure I will definitely do so thank you

[@irenetata6864]

Cute show

[@drkay9792]

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌😘

[@ernesteghan5704]

What about the waste materials . can you use it for animal feed or say fertilizers or even getting the waste back into the soil.

[@123abpp]

This is great! I am so impressed!👍 They mentioned opportunity to invest/own your own farm but I don’t think they provided a link for where to go to get started with that???? If anyone knows can you please post link? Thanks 😊

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[@cmmediaofficial5200]

Search for Ghana free zones authority... They'll assist you

[@salieujallow9112]

Ghana needs more factries owned by Ghanaians

[@patyolanda4132]

Please how much is wholesale price

[@lamincham9742]

hi, who do i contact for investment?

[@beatriceowusuachaw6210]

Pinnreapple is there

[@kwabenatree]

If you want to do something in Ghana you have to be here. If not 90% of the time things will not go well for you. Too much thieves in the system.

[@timetochangethecolonizatio613]

This is really really good job and nice! Where can i know more about it? I want to invest in it in my country

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[@jsbrobbey200]

Add other fruits and diversifie.

[@bettyadjei549]

Why are we not seeing Ekumfi juice in the Uk.

[@TheTravelingIsraelite]

Where is the info to invest in this company.

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[@mondaysamuel8294]

Am proud of you. this is nice work How do we invest ? if we want to

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[@nanaagyemang8189]

Denta I’m really interested in owning a farm how do I go about it? Very great show.

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Thank you so much

[@jcn908]

EXIM BANK.When the bank was set up it was mean't to help companies involved in exports.It was to help them in export financing.BUT NPP has come into power and is now giving loans to NPP members involved in 1D1F.Is Ekumfi factory going to export their juices?At the moment the juice is only sold in Ghana.

[@willypapa9165]

If there is a demand for fruit juice will you export it and use foreign exchange to import back into the country . I wish the government will have the same commitment towards rice , poultry , beef and pork production and halt importation .

[@jcn908]

@@willypapa9165 My point is a factory like Ekumfi which does not export its fruit juice products does not qualify for a loan from EXIM BANK,that was not what the bank was set up for.It was set up to help finance companies who wanted help to finance their exports.

[@reclaimgreatness7861]

@Odana please can I have Mr Fredrick contact?

[@tequishamcdearmon9152]

I googled Ekumfi Fruit and emailed them regarding the investment opportunity... maybe you should do the same!!! I'm so ready to invest in Africa and come back home!

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[@tequishamcdearmon9152]

Thank you, I emailed the Dentaa Show! Hopefully someone gets back with me soon! I love your show miss Dentaa!❤

[@thejamescarringtonpodcasts3509]

What’s the state of the factory right now?

[@cmartin5903]

What happens to the pulp during the juicing process?

[@nextoo1]

The cameraman needs a lot of training.

[@raa4909]

Poor camera person, show us the farm

[@emmanueladjei9327]

The owners of Ekumfi factory will lose ownership of the factory should there be a change of government because of the propaganda nature of the owners, no individual can own a factory funded with a task payers money.

[@Ghanadiaries]

Which taxpayers money? Do you know one 1d1f is a program funded by a bank? All were think is about bringing people down all because of politics and ignore the suffering of the masses.

[@edemadukonu741]

Akua Akwaa I’m shocked

[@jcn908]

@@Ghanadiaries Yes it is EXIM BANK which is funding the 1D1F.EXIM BANK was set up by the NDC during John Mahama Government

[@jcn908]

Emmanuel Adjei,I can see where you are coming from.NDC set up EXIM BANK.I don't know if NDC is going to continue the 1D 1F.This is Government funded programme,I don't know if it is WISE to give tax payers money to private individuals to set up farms and factories.What happens when the factory collapses?The tax payer will now have to foot the bill.long established factories which are not part of the 1D 1F are NOT benefitting because they have to pay taxes and electricity but 1D 1F projects don't pay taxes and electricity for 5yrs.THIS IS UNFAIR TO THE OLD AND LONG ESTABLISHED FACTORIES.

[@edemadukonu741]

J C What about the thousands of jobs being created for the taxpayers? We jubilate over construction of roads that don’t create lasting jobs in themselves (not to disregard roads, they’re essential), but we prefer to ignore the thousands of new farmers that are springing up to produce the inputs for the factories. Also, Ghana imports a lot of some of these products, which hurts our pockets invisibly but even if it takes incentives to get these factories running, the savings on foreign exchange have far reaching benefits for the “taxpayer”. Interesting how the cedi has only depreciated by about 2% this year. All these factories have indirect impacts on these matters and the benefits to the taxpayer far outweighs the costs.

[@jcn908]

1D1F even though a good project is very unfair to the old and established factories.1D1F factories don't pay taxes and electricity for 5 yrs!Also get subsidised loans from Government.1D1F is Government funded through the EXIM BANK.Is it wise to use Government money or taxpayers money to fund private businesses?What if the company collapses?Who will foot the bills for the loans?

[@ofori1706]

What's really your problem.. Criticising through all comments . and who told u old factories are not being revamped.. Even the recent failed sugar factory is being revamped .. Stop being mischievous .. From ur write up.. U definitely know nothing about 1d1f mandate ...

[@jcn908]

@@ofori1706 Kasepreko new factory at Tanoso which is also part of 1D 1F took a loan from Stanbic Bank to finance their project NOT A EXIM BANK LOAN.What stops these companies from doing the same?

[@ferkahisaac7451]

J.C ve read your comments please what do you personally have against 1d1f companies. Darko farms is getting assistance n many other old companies. Please let's all support good initiatives and try better it but negatives remarks will not help in anyway.

[@jcn908]

@@ferkahisaac7451 Can you READ?I NEVER said I am against 1D 1F.My point of view is I am AGAINST the use of EXIM BANK funds for the 1D1F projects.If a company like Kasepreko can obtain a loan from a private bank like Stanbic why can't the others do the same?

[@jcn908]

@@ferkahisaac7451 Just yesterday Trade Minister said EXIM BANK has given 40m Euros to a company called Akuapem Gold to help export AVOCADOS.This is something I agree because that was the reason Exim bank was set up.Companies like Ekumfi and Darko farms SHOULD NOT benefit from Exim bank loans because they are not exporting their products.

[@michaeltetteh6764]

My favorite juice 🧃 ❤️

[@amoawaarthur1220]

Thank God 🙏🙏