SWAST Is Starting A Big Vegetable Production In Kumasi

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has cleared an impediment to the establishment of a large-scale greenhouse vegetable production in the Ashanti Region by Shandong Weiyang Agricultural Science and Technology Limited.

The company with branches in the Greater Accra and Volta Regions, plans to reproduce a similar in the middle belt, explicitly in the Ashanti Region on a 2000-acre of land.

The project intended to make the region a food production hub will be called the Asanteman Vegetable Production Centre. This was announced by the Vice Chair of the Company, Dr Benjamin Mensah when he called on Otumfuo during at the Manhyia Palace on May 31, 2024.

“I went to read a medical program in China and I got familiar with vegetable farming. The city where I schooled produces 80% of China’s food as well as for export and I thought of bringing it to Asanteman,” Mr Mensah made known his inspiration to the Monarch.

This project, he said will champion premium food products, boost exports, and create employment in the region as done in the two regions.

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Before this, it was very challenging for Shandong Weiyang Agricultural Science and Technology Limited to receive the approval to Launch this project. However, Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II provided a request for appropriate lands to be designated to the company for the immediate initiation of the project.

Otumfuo Osei Tutu II said:

“Don’t waste any time after getting the land. We already have an airport here and so we will be able to export the produce. As many lands as we will find for you, I wish you undertake the project on them all. We have the lands for it.”

Among the delegation who visited the Manhyia Palace were the company’s Chairman, Mr Chen Xiaowei, the Executive Director, Mr Kwame Poku and the Director, Mr Reindorf Owusu.