Cadbury International has announced a £30m investment package for Ghana over the next 10 years. The announcement was contained in communiqué issued at the just ended “Business Call to Action” forum in London, UK a statement form the office of President Kufuor revealed in Accra today.
The forum was initiated by the British government and aimed at eliciting the support of the Private Sector to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The investment package will target cocoa farming communities in Ghana with the aim of improving their incomes and transforming the lives of over 1mn cocoa farmers over the next 10 years. It is expected to increase farmers’ productivity by up to 20% in the first five years, rising to 100% by the 10th year.
The investment will initially focus on 100 farming communities, with a target of 80,000 people. Cadbury is one of the few multinational companies that has operating in Ghana for over 100 years.
