The Ghana Oil Palm Development Company Ltd as an SOE has won the best Eastern Regional company award at the just ended Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) and quality awards held on November 26, 2022 in Accra.
The AGI in collaboration with the Ghana Standard Authority (GSA) together with the Trade and Industry Ministry organized such program to honour the efforts of companies that contribute massively to support the economy and nation building annually.
The GOPDC, an integrated Agro- industrial company is now fully owned by the SIAT GROUP an agricultural investment company of Belgium which operates in Cote D’Ivoire, Gabon, Cambodia,Ghana and Nigeria. The company leases two concessions from the gov’t of Ghana: GOPDC Kwae( 8954 ha) and GOPDC Okumaning (5075ha) both located at Kwaebibirem municipality and Denkyembour district respectively.
It has a total of 9,000 ha of oil palm planted in 2012, it diversified into rubber cultivation and has about 771 of rubber plantations in the uplands within its Kwae concession. It has over the years employed over 4000 workers during the peak season, produces over 35,000 tons of palm oil and palm kernel oil per annum.
GOPDC support the communities they operate in, not only through its business operations but through investment in education, health and the environment which are essential factors in socio-economic development in its catchment areas.
In education, it has instituted a scholarship scheme where students are chosen from the various communities and given scholarships to study at the tertiary levels. Again, in meeting the SDG 6, which is “accesss to water and sanitation for all” GOPDC has provided mechanized water system serving over 6,000 people in Kwae and other communities.
According to the Commercial Manager for the company, Mr. Charles Okyere Addo, “the award recognizes the hardwork their company has been offering to the country’s development over the past years and they are not going to rest on their oars.
“We’ll continue to provide the best working conditions for our cherished employees by providing quality products to support our clients- both locally and internationally and positively impact the environment and communities in which we operate in. And we’re grateful to AGI and Ghana at large,” he noted.
By// Nana Yaa Amoako Donkor.
Source// Obohnews.
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