Countries across the continent are using Covid-19 as a force for positive change, encouraging growth in the domestic manufacturing sector as the pandemic impacts traditional import sources
Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Carlos Ahenkorah, has called on the country’s manufacturers to double their production capacity.
Speaking on the national television show Eye on Port, he encouraged local industries to take advantage of the more favourable situation in Ghana to shore up production of locally manufactured products to make up for trade deficits incurred as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We believe that this is the time that Africa, or Ghana for that matter, should reconfigure its direction to meet post-Covid improvement of our economy. And if we are able to hold our own before the larger economies are able to defeat Covid, we would have shot forward long before they come back,” he said.
