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Brazil chooses Ghana as key
investment destination - Ambassador
Accra, Feb. 14, GNA – Brazil has chosen Ghana as a key
investment destination in Africa and an investment team
would be in the country after the 50th anniversary
celebrations to explore areas of interest, Mr Luis Fernando
Serba, Brazilian Ambassador to Ghana, said on Monday.
The Ambassador said this when he called on Mr Stephen
Asamoah-Boateng, Minister of Local Government, Rural
Development and Environment in Accra on Wednesday.
Mr Serba said the 45-year cordial relationship between the
two countries had given the green light for the two to do
business.
He said Brazil’s Amazon Forest housed about 20 million
people and the country had also tackled its urbanisation
problem in its main city, Rio de Janeiro and noted that
Ghana could learn from their experience.
Mr Asamoah-Boateng called for technical support from the
Brazilian government in agro-processing to help Ghana solve
post-harvest losses as well as the management of the
environment.
Brazil, he said, was a success story when it came to
agriculture exporting over 50 billion dollars of its produce
annually.
Ghana, Mr Asamoah-Boateng said, could tap into Brazil's
potential in managing the environment and rural development,
adding, "we need to tackle these problems before things get
out of hand."
He said the Ambassador had come at a time when the two
countries needed better cooperation and collaboration.
"The relationship between the two countries has been
beneficial and l hope it will improve for the better now
that you are here.”
As comic relief, the two men dared each other for a rematch
of the Ghana-Brazil match at the 2006 world cup.
The Brazilian ambassador said it would be a plus for Ghana
to play his country as they prepared for the African Cup
saying, that Ghana lost that match because they did not have
strikers but did extremely well by beating Nigeria recently.
He was optimistic that Ghana could go places with the
calibre of players it had now and said he would do his best
to see if a Ghana-Brazil match could be arranged before the
African Cup of Nations competition in January next year.
GNA
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