Sunday 10 July 2011
Ghana
Indian farm investment
Perhaps India's agricultural prowess inspired him. Prabhpreet Khinda, an engineer by training, arrived in Ghana in 2009 after he was devastated by the effects of the 2008 global financial meltdown. Twists and turns later, the 38-year-old from Punjab is today one of the big farmers in the West African country.
His original plan was to use the country as a base in order to be close to Liberia, where he had a mining project, but that has changed as he now tends land to produce food in anticipation of a global food shortage.
His original plan was to use the country as a base in order to be close to Liberia, where he had a mining project, but that has changed as he now tends land to produce food in anticipation of a global food shortage.
His company, Resources Africa, has a 2,200- hectare farm at Dzigbe, near Kpandu in the Volta region and is planning to acquire 2,000 hectares more for an integrated farming project.
Source: newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk
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