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Tropical Starch Company Limited is a registered Private Limited Liability Cassava Processing Company under Ghana Registrar General’s Department. The company was established in response to the need for processing and adding value to the abundant cassava crop which is cultivated in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese District with the aspiration of addressing post-harvest losses which is the major challenge confronting cassava producers, diversifying the rural economic base and improving the standard of living of the farmers who form the majority of the population in the District. The company specialises in manufacturing first-grade cassava flour and potato gari for the Ghanaian market. Through hard work and efficient management of its resources, the company has been able to finance the construction of a factory building. It has installed a medium-scale agro-processing machine with the capacity to process 2 tons of high-quality cassava flour and 200 kg of Apomudzen Gari in a day.
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Augustine Fiifi Amoah was born in Abura Dunkwa in the Central region of Ghana. After his secondary school Education, he proceeded to the Institute of Professional Studies (IPS) in Accra with Diploma in Business Studies (DBS) in Basic Accounting. He also has certificates in Accounting System & Bookkeeping Training (2015 -2016), Cassava Utilization and Marketing: (MOFA 2015), Regional Sensitization Workshop and Call for Projects. (GIPC 2015), Food Safety and Quality Management (AYAP 2016), Incubator Management Training (AAIN November 2017), Financial Management Training (Root Capital 2018), AutoCAD Architectural Building Plan and land Surveying (IKADO Construction firm), Cassava Flour processing (Ministry of Trade), Entrepreneur Digitalization (Ghana Enterprises Agency 2021), ISO 9001, ISO 22000:2018 Food Safety Management Systems Lead (Auditor Course VILT – CQI IRCA 2022). Augustine Fiifi Amoah is very adventurous and travelled from Accra to Cape Coast to look for greener pastures. In Cape Coast, he was employed as an accountant by Ikadi Construction Company which specialized in land surveying and building construction and was later employed by Tropical Starch Company in Abura Dunkwa which specialized in the production and marketing of Farm products as an Assistant Accountant. He was later promoted to the position of Administrative Manager. The COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the company, resulting in low sales of the Gari it was producing. As a result, in order to save the company from the pandemic, he developed a new product called Gari Fortified with Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes. Which he believed would be a wonderful commodity to sell during the pandemic because people were interested in eating well to improve their immune system. After attending a series of training on how to get the product to the consumers, the CEO finally agreed to adopt his product and invest in it. After some months when the CEO realized that the product was doing well in the market, he decided to make him a shareholder in the business. He is a leading supplier to most secondary schools in the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly, like Aggrey Memorial, Ghana National College and Adisadel College. Having conducted some research, he found out that the market potential and income levels of industrial starch manufacturing were quite considerable and this motivated him to transform his Gari processing into an industrial starch and high-quality cassava flour manufacturing company. As a resourceful entrepreneur, Augustine Fiifi Amoah to a large extent has relied on his abilities and resources to organize and build his industry. As of now, he is IRCA Certified ISO 22000 Lead Auditor. In addition, he is the General Manager of Tropical Starch Company.
