The trade house is a way to help local exporters exhibit their goods to a new market and this initiative is to expand Ghanaian businesses.
The Ghana Trade House is a storehouse for made in Ghana merchandise worthy of export.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), Osafohene Dr. Afua Asabea Asare disclosed this in an interview with broadcaster Kwami Sefa Kayi on his "Kokrokoo" show aired on Peace FM.
Dr. Asabea Asare, explaining the importance of this trade house, stated it is "for onward distribution to the East African market. So, when you go there, samples of everything that is worthy of export and made in Ghana can be found in it".
She also noted that as part of the Authority's initiatives to expand the export market for local businesses, her outfit in collaboration with government freely transports traders abroad for exhibition programmes and equips them with the necessary tools to boost their businesses.
One of such programmes that the Authority engages in aside its many projects to enhance the development of local export companies is its coconut revitalization project where they distribute coconut seedlings to farmers with aim of developing the sector which is on high demand.
The seedlings, she stated, are given to the farmers "to export the development of coconut and its by-product".
She further detailed why the Ghana Export Promotion Authority has over the years relentlessly distributed coconut seedlings saying "we want to expand our raw material base because we get a lot of orders that even if we decide to take all the coconut in Ghana, we can't meet those orders. It's made us very serious, hence we have currently embarked on a coconut revitalization project which for the past six years, we've been distributing coconut seedlings".
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