{"id":45485,"date":"2014-09-07T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=45485"},"modified":"2014-09-07T09:16:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T09:16:45","slug":"mahama-promises-to-support-indigenous-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/mahama-promises-to-support-indigenous-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama promises to support indigenous industries"},"content":{"rendered":"
President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated government’s commitment to support indigenous manufacturing companies to blossom to maturity.<\/p>\n
He said the move is to help in the reduction of importation of such goods and to create many job opportunities for the teeming youth of the country.<\/p>\n
President Mahama said this when he paid a maiden visit to the Dignity-DTRT, a garment factory in Accra, to acquaint himself with their operations and capacity levels.<\/p>\n
The visit is also to actualise the promise he made in his State of the Nation’s address to visit indigenous Ghanaian industries to find out areas of support and cooperation.<\/p>\n
Dignity-DTRT, which is a joint venture, currently manufactures garments for the United States of America market, with a workforce of 500 people that is expected to increase to 1,000 workers by the close of 2015.<\/p>\n
President Mahama said the government had already given financial support for the Pharmaceutical Companies to reduce the importation of drugs and would accord the same support to other indigenous companies that would show glimpses of hope for the country.<\/p>\n