Oka Foods Introduce Organic Products

Daily Guide 21/10/10

By Emmanuel Kubi

IN an effort to ensure food security, Oka Foods, an organization in the Volta region, has introduced varieties of organic food products onto the Ghanaian market.
This comes at the time when the world is moving away from chemically produced food products to the organic ones that are free from the effects of chemical residues.
In a speech read of her behalf in Accra on Friday at the launch of the products, the Minister for Women’s and Children Affair Juliana Azumah Mensah commended the management of Oka Foods for their innovation and providing safe food to people.
She applauded them for dedicating over 60 per cent of their workforce to women, stressing that this would help reduce poverty among people in rural communities.
According to her, ensuring food security and sufficiency should be seen as a collective responsibility that gives meaning to the theme of this year’s World Food Day celebration “United Against Hunger.”
She noted that unemployment is a huge challenge for government “even though over 350’000 people join the labour force annually.”
The Chief Executive Officer of Oka Foods, Mabel Akoto Kudzo noted that the organization would produce nutritional and safe products.
“These made it possible for us to consider producing and processing our own products to be able to maintain the quality,” she said.
She added that Oka Foods is cultivating over 200 acres of land near the Wli water falls, Likpe and Likpe-Agbozome in the Hohoe District, stressing that they are engaged in multiple cropping.
According to her, her outfit is producing highly nutritional crops like the Jasmine 85, brown rice, tasty palm oil,
The organization, she noted, produces lean pigs, goat and other livestock with less fat.
Jack Okyne, Deputy Manager of Oka Foods, said no preservative and additives are used in processing and storing the products because they consider the health of the people as paramount.
He said though they were able to win the Technoserve Business Awards, there are challenges in accessing funds to buy equipment to increase productivity.