Ghana’s First Ethanol Plant to Begin Production
(GhanaWeb) Caltech Ventures, a cassava cropping and processing company at Hodzo, in the Ho Municipality, is to begin the production of cassava-derived ethanol by March this year, the first in Ghana.
Ghana currently imports 60 million litres of ethanol yearly.
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All is set, with a crack Ghanaian team of fabricators working for Memot Fabrication Engineering putting finishing touches to the columns and large steel storage tanks for test running of the plant to begin anytime soon.
Mr Quarshie said the waste from the process would be used to generate electricity and make fodder for animals.
He said only 400 of its 3,000 hectare land is under cultivation. This is to be scaled up to 1,000 hectares by close of year. READ MORE