Mr Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, the Western Regional Minister, Tuesday, urged entrepreneurs to set up factories to process coconut in the area, which produces about 85 per cent of the fruit crop on the Ghanaian market.
He said there was the need to leverage on the African Continental Free Trade Agreement to export both raw and processed coconut to all African countries, adding that Nigeria had been importing the fruit for many years.
Ghana could also produce more activated carbon from the shell of coconut that could be used for the extraction of gold and other minerals, and so export them to mining areas in Africa such as Angola, South Africa, and Mozambique, he said.
