On Thursday 28th January, 2021, A Rocha Ghana Commissioned Organic Shea Butter processing facility, 8 Shea warehouses, Organic Cassava Processing Facility and handed over to the chiefs and people of MURUGU in the West Gonja municipal assembly of the Savannah region. More details soon.
COMMISSIONING OF ORGANIC SHEA BUTTER PROCESSING FACILITY, 8 SHEA WAREHOUSES, ORGANIC
CASSAVA PROCESSING FACILITY
Background for the development of these Enterprises.
These enterprises were setup within the framework of the collaborative resource management policy
which has led to establishment and development of 4 Community Resource Management Areas(CREMAs) namely; Murugu-Mognori CREMA, Yazori-Kumbo CREMA, Bawena-Kpulumbo CREMA and Gurubagu-Wawato CREMA.
Theses CREMAs have committed to sustainably manage their natural resources in a manner that ensures that the environment is protected for sustainable farming and at the same time protected for Biodiversity and also to continuously provide ecosystem services for the well-being of communities.
As part of efforts to harness the natural resources in these CREMAs, these green enterprises have been identified and developed to provide these communities with long term stream of income withoutcompromising the environmental integrity of these CREMAs.
Challenges CREMAs Need Support to Address
- Illegal harvesting rosewood and other hardwood species
- illegal charcoal production
- Illegal logging of shea trees
Funding Agencies;
French Development Agency
Evolution of Smooth (EOS)
Global Shea Alliance (GSA)
USAID
Africa Tiger Holdings Limited (ATHL)
International Union for Conservation of Nature – Netherlands Committee (IUCN-NL)
Savannah Fruits Company (SFC)
Noe
AgroEco
A Rocha Ghana
1 ORGANIC SHEA
BUTTER PROCESSING
FACILITY
11 ORGANIC SHEA
WAREHOUSES
2 ORGANIC
PROCESSING FACILITIES
ANCILLIARY
EQUIPMENT - Murugu Community
- 200 women direct
employment - 1 ton of butter a day
- Environmentally
friendly facility - Reduced waste
- Gurubagu, Wawato,
Bawena, Achubunyor,
Soalepe, Bonyanto,
Yazori, Mognori,
Kpulumbo, Jinfronu and
Donkope - 8 community satellite
warehouses - Bawena and Murugu
communities - 200 registered cassava
farmers - Organic Cassava Flour
- 12 Tricycles
- 130 tarpaulins
- 8 Honey
Extractors
Reduced water
consumption - Reduced health hazards
of women (less smoke,
less heat, friendly
machines) - Over 600 women
- 8 women cooperatives
- Total of 200 MT
capacity warehouse.
