SUGAR DEVELOPMENT

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The Sugar Rehabilitation Project will include: (a) machinery and equipment for two sugar factories and their associated sugar cane estates at Asutsuare and Komenda; (b) planting 3,550 acres of sugar cane to complete the two estates and replanting 7,350 acres; (c) provision of credit and extension services to assist smallholders bring some 3,900 acres into sugar cane production and to replant some 8,700 acres; (d) rehabilitation of irrigation works to meet all of the Asutsuare estate requirements and pilot works for about 600 acres at Komenda; (e) housing for management, staff and workers on the two estates; (f) vehicles for management and staff on the two estates; (g) expatriate management services to establish operation of the sugar industry in a single Ghanaian company and to train Ghanaian management and staff; (h) technical assistance to the Agricultural Development Bank in credit accounting and control, reviewing the financial position of the Bank, and advising on credit policies and procedures; (i) a study to determine the feasibility for further expansion of sugar production.