From George Ernest Asare, Kumasi.
The Kumasi Wood Cluster Initiative has inaugurated a showroom at Adum to enhance the marketing of wood products and revenue generation for members.
Mrs Maria Vitores, Director of SPEED Ghana, an NGO, who inaugurated the showroom which had on display household, office, hotel and outdoor furniture, gave an assurance that the NGO would continue to provide the needed support to enable the artisans to add value to the wood products and make them more competitive.
Mr K. Agyemang, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Furniture and Wood Products Association of Ghana (FAWAG), commended SPEED Ghana for its tremendous support in building the capacity of members of the association.
He explained that it was the support of the NGO that had opened avenues for the Wood Cluster Initiative and strengthened their viability.
Mr Agyemang pointed out that the Wood Cluster Initiative “evolved naturally due to the fact that Kumasi is a strong timber base in Ghana, hosting many sawmills.
He added that “many carpenters and other tertiary processors of wood have taken advantage of the proximity of the sawmills to set up wood processing businesses, and this has made the name Kumasi to become synonymous with furniture and other wood products in Ghana”.
He appealed to the government to “address the raw materials need of the cluster and design special industrial schemes specifically tailored for the tertiary wood industry to fully empower the sector to play its leading role in the economic development of the nation”.
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