100,000 TONNE WAREHOUSE FOR KAJEBIL (PAGE 22, JUNE 27)

THE Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is constructing a 100,000-tonne capacity warehouse complex at Kajebil near Apowa in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region, for the storage of dried cocoa beans. This will help reduce the periodic congestion at the Takoradi Harbour and other areas in Takoradi during peak cocoa seasons.
The Takoradi Harbour has been experiencing congestion caused by articulated trucks loaded with bags of dried cocoa beans during the main cocoa season every year, with some of the trucks being delayed at the harbours for months.
The construction of the warehouse complex which has just begun on a 100-acre land, is expected to be completed in August, next year.
It comprises seven ware -houses; five for storing cocoa and two for discrepant cocoa, residential accommodation for staff, a clinic and administration blocks for COCOBOD and cocoa licensing companies.
Others are a laboratory, fumigation and changing rooms, a canteen, a guest house for drivers and their mates, parking for trucks and private vehicles.
The parking lots can accomodate 600 trucks at a go.
A Senior Quality Control Officer of the COCOBOD, Mr Addai Wusu, made this known to the Western Regional Minister, Mr Paul Evans Aidoo, when he paid a working visit to the offices of the COCOBOD and the Cocoa Marketing Company at the Takoradi Harbour .
Mr Wusu stated that the Quality Control Division would ensure that the quality of cocoa from the country was sustained on the international market was not compromised.
He said they working very hard to contribute their quota towards the development of the country.
The regional minister was happy that COCOBOD was expanding its warehouse and other facilities.
He called on COCOBOD to consider the welfare of the ordinary farmer in order to sustain the cocoa industry.