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Fully-Automated Gari Processing Factory Launched in China; Ghanaians can't keep calm
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Fully-Automated Gari Processing Factory Launched in China; Ghanaians can't keep calm

by  Ebenezer Agbey Quist 2 min read

- A fully automated gari processing factory has been launched in China

- The factory has machines that are able to convert the raw cassava all the way into fully processed gari

- Ghanaians have been taken by surprise by the development and have been reacting massively

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China has set up a factory that is able to mass-produce gari which has been displayed in a video that is generating a lot of buzz on social media.

In the video shared by Ameyaw Debrah on his verified Twitter handle, a Chinese lady was seen showing how the factory operates and what function each machine has.

Gari is an indigenous food in Ghana and Nigeria that is usually manufactured locally from cassava and serves as a source of livelihood to many.

See the video below:

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The news of China's new factory has warranted tons of reactions online.

YEN.com.gh has compiled a few of them below:

@meanages said:

Love how they're very innovative. Our focus is on sex and its contents, morality, church and chilling.

@emmanuelfigasty mentioned that:

Ghanaians have known God that the whites that even introduce Christianity and Islam to Gh. Everything has been politics. Backbiting and dem things we just don’t have a future

@Tanef5h indicated:

We have been doing it the same old way for centuries how they have come to learn and are now using improved methods

Fully automated gari processing factory launched in China; Ghanaians can't keep calm
Fully automated gari processing factory launched in China; Ghanaians can't keep calm Credit: @Ameyaw112
Source: Twitter

Meanwhile, a video of a cocoa peeling machine invented in China has surfaced on social media in Ghana following recent reports that China might soon be producing more cocoa than Ghana.

In the footage sighted by YEN.com.gh on the Twitter handle of Saddick Adams, the machine is simply stacked with the full cocoa fruit in a shoot.

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Within seconds, the husk is removed from the beans mixed with the fruit.

This has warranted several comments as Ghana started producing cocoa in 1878 when Tetteh Quarshie brought the beans to Ghana and no such technological advancement has been made to assist the farmers.

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Ebenezer Agbey Quist (HOD Human-Interest) Ebenezer Agbey Quist is the Head of the Human Interest Desk at YEN.com.gh. He has a BSc in Chemical Engineering from KNUST (2017) with 8 years of experience as a writer and 3 years as an editor. He has certificates in AFP courses on digital investigation techniques. At YEN.com.gh, Ebenezer has won the Outstanding Achievement for Professional Conduct Award and the Best Human Interest Editor Award. He is also the author of 3 books. You can contact him via ebenezer.quist@yen.com.gh.

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