Ghana: Volta Trade and Investment Fair launched in Ho city

The Volta Trade and Investment Fair has been unveiled in Ghana’s Ho city to showcase the investment potential in the Volta and Oti regions.

The Volta Trade and Investment Fair is likely to attract more than 2,000 visitors comprised of investors, business communities, diplomats, contractors, professionals in the building industry, students, young entrepreneurs and manufacturers. All the 26 municipal and district assemblies of both regions will participate in the fair.

The fair has been launched by Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, the Volta Regional Minister. According to him, this year’s fair would give prominence to Volta and Oti regions-made products and also prioritise ways in which locally manufactured goods could mingle with internationally made ones. “We can only grow competitive industries when our economies are on the producing end and not on the receiving end,” he added.

The theme of Volta Trade and Investment Fair is ‘Sustainable investment and industrial growth through trade promotion’. “Our region cannot break out of the poverty cycle if we do not industrialise; investing in industrialisation is one of the best ways of supporting the private sector because the industry is the heartbeat of the private sector,” he cited, as reported by Graphic Online.

According to him, the private sector players can take advantage of the enabling environment created by the government in order to meet the vision of the region as a producing and exporting one.

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