Activities:
The factory is located northwest of Accra.
N 5o 42' 2.57", W 0o 34' 6.75"
ISI has been nominated for an award during the official opening ceremony attended by His Excellency President John Kufuor.
- Activities
- Turnkey Plants
- SmartPlant at Work
- Hydrocyclones
- Centrifugal Screens
- Advisory Service
- Training
- Waste is Money
The factory is located northwest of Accra.
N 5o 42' 2.57", W 0o 34' 6.75"
ISI has been nominated for an award during the official opening ceremony attended by His Excellency President John Kufuor.
Pulp dewatering
Land spreading of cassava juice as a fertilizer.
Cattle being fed on cassava pulp residues.
Courier with the very first bag of cassava starch to president Kufuor.
The starch is marketed as a branded product, packed and labeled in bags with our internationally registered trademark.
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Modern Ghana News: First factory for starch production.
Cassava starch plant to be the first in Ghana
President John Kufuor established a working group "Presidents Special Initiative" to promote the agro-food industry. "Redhill" in South Africa had just been finished as the first modern cassava starch factory in Africa and PSI decided to follow up on that success and introduce the same technology in Ghana.
The
initiative was backed up by government, farmers, local banks and others.
From the Danish side Danida went in with a comprehensive three-year
training package. This package included, inter alia approach to the
use of effluent as fertilizer on farmland by land spreading and methods
to monitor fertilzer efficiency as well as any nitrogen leakage to sub
soil waters.
Photo: Monitoring the fertilizer efficiency of
juice landspreading by sampling of soil water. Samples were analyzed
daily on the factory's own laboratory, and some were sent to our central
laboratory for measurement of specific micronutrients.
Our sister company International Starch Trading agreed to export the
starch - preferably to the European Union on license issued under the
Lome Trading Act. The starch was filled in 25 kg multilayer paper bags
and in one ton big bags. For large consumers we developed a brand new
method for shipping the starch in bulk packed in lined containers and
method to reverse the process when the containers reached their destination.
Photo: Starch is exported out of Thema _ a very busy port.
With Danida support a technical management agreement was put in place with highly trained starch specialists on location during a three year period.