Homecoming Summit yields 60 projects

Sixty projects have so far been established since the Homecoming Summit organised last year, raking in a total of 30.42 million dollars of investment.

The investments covered areas such as agriculture, export trade, manufacturing, general trade, service, tourism, building and construction, Mr Stephen Asamoah-Boateng, Co-ordinator National Economic Dialogue, said on Tuesday. In agriculture, there were seven projects, which were valued at 0.88 million dollars and one export trade project valued at 1.04 million dollars.

He said the manufacturing industry had a 1.33 million dollar investment for 15 projects. General trade had one project at 6.59 million dollars, the service sector had 26 projects at 17.72 million dollars and Tourism had nine projects valued at 1.91 million dollars. The building and construction industry had one project which cost 0.95 million dollars.