date:Oct 17, 2013
h has the capacity to process 30 tonnes of fresh pineapple a day for export, is only doing 20 tonnes a day. Last month, the company laid off over 400 workers due to lack of raw materials for off peak production. HPW, a Swiss company which used to export fresh fruits from Ghana, had to make a hard U-turn to dry fruits pineapple, mango and coconut. Ghanas fruit industry consists of a huge amount of small farmers, often with a weak set-up and very few large and professional fruit growers/exporters