President John Dramani Mahama has announced the Volta Economic Corridor as the flagship intervention under his government’s 24-Hour Economy policy. Speaking at the launch of the programme in Accra on July 2, Mahama said the corridor would unlock the agricultural, industrial, and environmental potential of the Volta Lake and its surrounding regions.
The President stated that the corridor would reignite the original vision of Ghana’s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, who saw the Volta project as a foundation for a broader agro-industrial revolution. Mahama lamented that the agricultural and agribusiness components of Nkrumah’s vision were abandoned over the years, but stressed that his government is determined to bring that dream back to life.
The Volta Economic Corridor initiative includes major projects such as irrigating over 2 million hectares of land for intensive agriculture, establishing agro-industrial parks, developing tourism clusters along the Volta Lake, and transforming the lake into a central transport corridor linking the North to the South and East to the West.
Ruth Abla ADJORLOLO
