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Ghana looking at India as its industrial development partner
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SME Times News Bureau | 15 May, 2018
Ghana is looking at India as its "partner" for the industrial
development in the African country and is expecting the bilateral-trade
between the two countries to cross US $4 billion by this year, an envoy
said here on Monday.
"Bilateral trade between Indian and Ghana
was between US $3-4 billion dollar in the past year and it is expected
to cross US $4 billion this year," said Michael A.N.N. Oquaye Jnr., the
High Commissioner of Ghana in India.
"We are not just working
with India but we are looking to partner India in terms of achieving out
one-district-one-factory programme," he said on the sidelines of an
interactive session organised at MCCI here.
The African country
is also seeking more financial assistance from India so that companies
from India get more support for participating in its
one-district-one-factory programme, the envoy said.
"China has
put up a fund and people (Chinese companies) are tapping this fund to
set up their base. Indian are coming in but at a smaller rate than the
Chinese. We want India to come in a big way," the diplomat said.
According to industries, gold accounts for a majority of India's imports from Ghana.
Asked
whether there was a dip in imports of gold from India after the
unearthing of multi-dollar scam in the Punjab National Bank, he said:
"Most of our gold is traded by Dubai and Indians buy from there. We do
not have any problems and do not have any dip (in our gold exports)."
The
African country intends to imports skills from India to develop
Information and Communication Technology (ICT). There are many Indian
institutes to develop resources in Ghana and many Ghanians are coming to
India to be trained in ICT, he said.
"We are going to cretate
industrial parks in Ghana and the first we are going to create in
collaboration with India is a pharma park," he said.
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