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Rana Motors outdoor financial packages for rubber growers
Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu
Automobile company Rana Motors is providing rubber out-growers in the country with flexible financial packages to enable them own vehicles to facilitate their business. The offer follows persistent complaints by the out-growers over difficulties they encountered in transporting their produce to the premises of the Ghana Rubber Estate Limited (GREL) in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region.
Rana Motors package
Regional Sales Executive of Rana Motors, Mr Ernest Okine Tawiah explained that under the package, a farmer is required to pay 20 or 35 per cent of the cost of a vehicle of his choice and arrange instalment payments over two or three years.
Among the vehicles available to the farmers, according to Mr Tawiah, are Ashok Leyland trucks and buses and Ford trucks, as well as their accessories to ensure that the farmers derived the maximum benefit.
As part of the package, Rana Motors has also set up mobile technical teams in Accra, Tema, Takoradi and Kumasi to service vehicles particularly in distant locations.
The Western Regional Chairman of the Rubber Out-growers and Agents Association, Mr S.M.S. Quaicoe told the Daily Graphic on the sidelines of the association’s 11th Annual General Meeting that the package was timely and vital to the operations of famers.
He recalled that in the recent past, GREL provided transportation that ensured that every harvested rubber reached its facility at Apimanim in the Ahanta West District.
Mr Quaicoe said the number of out-growers engaged in the production of rubber has however increased and therefore made it difficult for GREL as a company with profit motive to go round every farm to cart the produce to its factory.
“To us the out-growers transportation has been one of our biggest challenges, because aside the immediate environs of Nzema East, Ahanta West and Tarkwa Nsuaem, rubber cultivation and plantations extend to Mansu-Amenfi, Asankragwa, Enchi, Bibiani, as well as places in the Central and Eastern regions.”
Carting frequency & cost
He said the harvesting patterns of the farmers vary as some farmers prefer to send the harvested rubber to GREL every fortnight with others preferring to do it monthly, but because of the transportation challenges they are forced to stock for much longer and eventually suffer losses.
“Even from immediate environs, the vehicles that we hire charge between ¢200.00 and ¢300.00 and we end up working for the drivers or vehicle owners, therefore, the package from Rana Motors is timely and will help us,” he said.
Written by Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, WEST TANOKROM/TAKORADI
Rana Motors package
Regional Sales Executive of Rana Motors, Mr Ernest Okine Tawiah explained that under the package, a farmer is required to pay 20 or 35 per cent of the cost of a vehicle of his choice and arrange instalment payments over two or three years.
Among the vehicles available to the farmers, according to Mr Tawiah, are Ashok Leyland trucks and buses and Ford trucks, as well as their accessories to ensure that the farmers derived the maximum benefit.
As part of the package, Rana Motors has also set up mobile technical teams in Accra, Tema, Takoradi and Kumasi to service vehicles particularly in distant locations.
The Western Regional Chairman of the Rubber Out-growers and Agents Association, Mr S.M.S. Quaicoe told the Daily Graphic on the sidelines of the association’s 11th Annual General Meeting that the package was timely and vital to the operations of famers.
He recalled that in the recent past, GREL provided transportation that ensured that every harvested rubber reached its facility at Apimanim in the Ahanta West District.
Mr Quaicoe said the number of out-growers engaged in the production of rubber has however increased and therefore made it difficult for GREL as a company with profit motive to go round every farm to cart the produce to its factory.
“To us the out-growers transportation has been one of our biggest challenges, because aside the immediate environs of Nzema East, Ahanta West and Tarkwa Nsuaem, rubber cultivation and plantations extend to Mansu-Amenfi, Asankragwa, Enchi, Bibiani, as well as places in the Central and Eastern regions.”
Carting frequency & cost
He said the harvesting patterns of the farmers vary as some farmers prefer to send the harvested rubber to GREL every fortnight with others preferring to do it monthly, but because of the transportation challenges they are forced to stock for much longer and eventually suffer losses.
“Even from immediate environs, the vehicles that we hire charge between ¢200.00 and ¢300.00 and we end up working for the drivers or vehicle owners, therefore, the package from Rana Motors is timely and will help us,” he said.
Written by Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, WEST TANOKROM/TAKORADI