Manly-Spain expresses worry over GHABROP Chicken products

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By McAnthony Dagyenga

Mr Henry Ekow Manly-Spain, a businessman and importer of Chicken products has expressed worry about the bad nature of the Ghana Broiler Revitalisation Project (GHABROP) chicken products and called on the Food and Drugs Authority to step in.

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Manly-Spain

He said the Ministry of Food and Agricultural could not ?blackmail? poultry products dealers in the country into buying GHABROP Chicken products which had no production and expiry dates on them as required by law before being allowed to clear their goods at the port.
?I embrace the policy to help local poultry industry but its implementation is in bad taste so far as the product is concerned,? he said.
Mr Manly-Spain spoke to this reporter in Accra while alleging that some importers were going out of business because they had been refused permits to clear their goods at the port ?for reason that they would not buy the 40 percent of GHABROP chicken which fall below packaging and branding standards.?
He however admitted that as an importer of chicken, he was ever ready to buy the products if they packaged them well and do the necessary things to meet standards.
The businessman therefore entreated the FDA to step in and ensure that GHABROP adhered to standards and quality packaging to attract more Ghanaians to patronize the Made-in-Ghana products.
According to reports wholesalers and retailers of local poultry products have threatened to boycott the local chicken products from GHABROP for what they allege as ?poor packaging, branding and inconsistency.?
They also claimed the chicken products from GHABROP had no production and expiry dates on them as required by law.
Meanwhile, Mr Kojo Blankson Wilson, the Director of Operations at GHABROP had assured the chicken dealers to expect international quality standards products in the second phase of the Project since management had rectified all anomalies.
He said GHABROP needs to be encouraged to boost consumption of Made-in-Ghana products than to be vilified.
The GHABROP was launched in July 2014 by the government to boost local capacity in the production, processing and marketing of chicken products in Ghana.
It was aimed at developing the poultry industry and to ensure that all stakeholders, including consumers, to play their roles to warrant self-sufficiency.
The target of the project is to produce 30,000 metric tonnes of broiler meat with an expected increase to 60,000 metric tonnes to progressively reduce Ghana?s meat import burden by 40 per cent by 2016.

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