Investors in salt to be assisted by CEDECOM

The Central Region Development Commission (CEDECOM) in conjunction with the Mineral Commission is to set up a bank of 50,000 hectres of potential salt production land along the coastal belt from Kasoa in Awutu-Effutu-Senya District to Kafodidi in Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Aberem District to facilitate acquisition of land for the President's Special Initiative on Salt winning.

The Commission has also decided to set up a plant pool to offer the needed support to investors who want to go into salt production.

Mr Foster Forson, Executive Director of the Commission announced at a meeting with some stakeholders from Ekumfi Traditional Area at Saltpond.

The meeting was convened at the instance of CEDECOM to sensitize the stakeholders on prospects of salt production.

Mr Forson said Nigeria, for instance, had been importing her salt requirement from the far away Brazil.

He said the country (Nigeria) needed about one million metric tones of salt in a year and said if Ghana is able to supply the requirement it could fetch the nation some handsome foreign exchange.