India to organise big business show in Ghana
Mr Wilson Attah Krofah, First Vice President of West Africa Representative of Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, on Wednesday recommend that African businessmen and businesswomen and Institutions should take advantage of the India Show to be organised in Ghana this July, and improve upon their businesses.
The show is to create a platform for businessmen and seek partnership for trade, joint ventures, technology transfer and investment from India.
Mr Krofah addressing a press conference on the show in Accra, said it would create the opportunity for India and Ghana and neighbouring West African countries to meet and study the Indian industry and agricultural and food processing techniques.
The theme for the India Show, which would is “Showcasing India in the 21st Century,” would be in a two phases, an exhibition and an India-West Africa Business Forum for all business counterparts.
The India Show is being organised by Federation of India Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the apex Chamber of Commerce in India, with support from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India and being partnered by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and counterpart Chambers of Commerce and Industry from West Africa.
He said that the Show that would be held at the Ghana Trade Fair Centre from Monday July 9-Wednesday July 11, would offer Africans the avenue to showcase their products to India and the world and learn about learn about trade and investment opportunities in India.
Mr Krofah said: “More Indian delegates from agriculture and allied services, construction, consumer durables, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, information technology, infrastructure (power, roads and railways), logistics, minerals and mining, oil and gas science and technology, textiles are expected to participate in this event”.
He mentioned that there would be business-to-business meetings, sartorial roundtables, cultural extravaganza and India food festival as part of the key sections of the event.
Mr Krofah said that the show would create awareness on best Indian technologies and products, explore opportunities offered by the West Africa Sub-Region, to increase trade exports between India and West African countries, and strengthen the cooperation between the two partners, in existing and new areas of mutual interest.
In an interview with GNA, Mr Rajinder Bhagat, Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, said the India Show would focus on the entire West African Sub-Region, which constituted ECOWAS countries, namely Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d`Ivoire, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo along with Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Tome` and Principe and the Republic of Congo.
He said the show would be opened by President John Evans Atta Mills and addressed by Mr Anand Sharma, India’s Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles and Government of India.
The India Show exhibition and conference would have more than 100 stalls and expected more than 200 delegates from more than 10 West African counties would be expected to participate.
Mr Bhagat said “discussion will deliberate on mode of cooperation between investments in India and investment promotion agencies of West Africa to have a more structured approach towards facilitating investments in West Africa”.
Source: GNA