Sugarcane factory: sugar, ethanol and power generation

To produce sugar and its related products for both local and international markets. Produce 1,250 tonnes of cane per day of white sugar , ethanol and 1.0 megawatts surplus power.

PPP. The private partner Agripark has an operational licence to access the assets of the state including the land of 3,000ha. Sugarcane will be produced from both the state's nucleus farm and also through outgrower schemes. In total over 6,000acrs are required for supply sugar cane to the factory. There used to be an old sugar factory, for which the government acquired land. The new factory is located on land that used to be a sugar cane farm supplying the old factory.

PPP. The private partner Agripark has an operational licence to access the assets of the state including the land of 3,000ha. Sugarcane will be produced from both the state's nucleus farm and also through outgrower schemes. In total over 6,000acrs are required for supply sugar cane to the factory. There used to be an old sugar factory, for which the government acquired land. The new factory is located on land that used to be a sugar cane farm supplying the old factory.

originally commenced in 1960. Rebuild in 2016 but fell into disuse. New strategic investor signed up in 2019 who will start activities in 2020. Ran as a PPP

Komenda Sugar Factory is a Ghanaian factory established in 1964 and its operations ground to a halt in the early 1990s. This was due to poor management and technical issues.

Factory was opened in 2016, now project is on hold due to lack of raw material to feed the factory and financial issues. Project not abandoned, investors are trying to revive it. A field visit in 2020 by the Ghana Data Campaign found the factory was still not operational.

Factory was opened in 2016, and then on hold due to lack of raw material to feed the factory and financial issues. A field visit in 2020 by the Ghana Data Campaign found the factory was still not operational. In 2022, the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given the assurance that the Komenda Sugar Factory, currently undergoing test run, will be commissioned by the close of the year. The test run, according officials of the factory, has produced 12.5 metric tons of unrefined sugar in barely two months. However, as of September 2023, the factory is still not operational. According to the minister of parliamentary affairs, the reason the factory is not successful is because there is no arable land in the vicinity of the factory to provide the sugarcane. These implementation statuses relate to the sugar factory, there is nothing about the plantation in the data sources but it seems that it was never in operation.

SEFTECH Ltd was contracted to develop 50 acres of sugarcane nursery (2016)

SEFTECH Ltd was contracted to develop 50 acres of sugarcane nursery (2016). There is an additional$24 million to bolster the activities of sugarcane out grower

The factory was expected to employ 7,300 people along the value chain. Another source mentions ''The sugar factory, on completion, would provide 1,300 direct jobs to Ghanaians and over 5,000 auxiliary jobs would also be provided under the project''.

Komenda Sugar Factory

Seftech India technical advisor and providing training.

Seftech India technical advisor and providing training. The sugar factory collapsed and it was inaugurated by the erstwhile John Mahama government in 2016.This was made possible by a loan facility of 35 million dollars from an Indian EXIM Bank. A partnership agreement was signed with a Ghanaian-Indian company, Park Agrotech Ghana Limited, expected to pump some $28 million into the project to revive it. The Ghana-based company is a subsidiary of the Skylark Group of Companies of India, one of the largest integrated farming businesses in India. Agrotech Ghana Limited might have pulled out in 2021, as a data source mentions the strategic investor pulled out, but we can not confirm it was Agrotech.

The test run, according officials of the factory, has produced 12.5 metric tonnes of unrefined sugar in barely two months.

Sugar for both domestic consumption and export

Sugar factory to produce sugar, ethanol and power