The availability of a ready market is a very important aspect of the Agricultural value chain, and when there is an offtake and a ready market problem the whole value chain becomes static, and huge losses are made in the process. This has been the headache of stakeholders in the agricultural sector in Ghana. Industrialization with a ready market is the best solution for this issue. It provides a constant and more stable market for raw materials and the processed goods too.

Countries like Thailand make about $4 billion from industrializing and exporting cassava products such as starch, flour, ethanol, syrup, etc. every year. It is high time we changed the situation. Ghana, as a developing economy, depends heavily on agriculture, and so we need to benefit more. With TIAST providing the Technical and Financial leasing to help stakeholders establish their own processing plants, it is only prudent to provide the major factor that actually turns the hard work and investment into money; the Ready Market. This is exactly what the TIAST offtake service provides. A comfortable ready market.

Our offtake service ensures that all the processed goods produced from our factories are sold. Currently, we have an annual order of about 600,000 tons of cassava starch from China, and we are in the best position to render this service. Due to this advantage, we operate a weekly offtake service that enables us to offtake immediately after the producer produces the required quantity.

We also provide packaging material for the processed goods for the processor, and we take care of the shipment from the factory to the buyer. With the aim of promoting Ghana’s cassava starch brand, we set a common starch brand and also promote the processors brand on the international market. With bulk starch supply from our established factories, we negotiate for a better price for starch from Ghana and share the negotiated price with the processor. Come onboard, let us turn this sector into a gold mine.