FAGRO, FBX signs agreement

The Food and Agric Show (FAGRO) and FBX Global Exhibition Services have entered into a three-year agreement to promote the 2010 FAGRO on the international platform as well as help attract and sustain investments for the country’s agricultural sector.

As part of the agreement, FBX Global Exhibition Services will bring on board 50 foreign companies from Spain, Portugal and China to exhibit and participate in FAGRO 2010 scheduled for Tuesday, October 12, to Sunday, October 17, 2010 at the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre.

FBX Global Exhibition Services is a multinational company based in Barcelona, Spain, and specialises in the organisation of exhibition promotions and showrooms in Southern Europe and China to promote countries that wish to exhibit their products, industry and culture on the global market.

The FAGRO Secretariat is the country’s promoter of the fair, under the theme “Sustainable Agriculture Through Appropriate Technology”.

The Chief Executive Officer, FBX Global Exhibition Services, Francesc Borras, signing on behalf of the company, said the collaboration would facilitate the transfer of knowledge and technologies across borders.

“FBX’s experience in the areas of food and renewable energies among others, and its knowledge of Africa, encourages us to firmly believe in a brighter future for this continent,” Mr. Borras said.

He pledged the company’s commitment to ensure that the country’s agriculture and FAGRO 2010 is more efficient, modernised, sustainable, international, profit-oriented and less expensive for farmers.

The Exhibition Director, FAGRO 2010, Alberta Nana Akyaa Akosa, explained that the decision by the Secretariat to promote FAGRO on the international platform is to expose the country’s agricultural sector to modern agricultural methods.

“Projecting FAGRO will attract such technologies into Africa, since Africa has little or no capacity to develop these technologies to compete favorably on the international market to develop our economy.”

FBX and FAGRO’s collaboration will allow us to work in the coming years, in the same direction and with the objective of developing the agricultural sector which contributes over 50 percent to the country’s gross domestic product,” she said.