Under the HortiFresh Innovation fund, Ropryn company Limited’s goal is to “improve the overall quality and food safety of fruits and vegetables sold to clients, working through smallholder farmers’’.

Few months after commencement of the project, Ropryn has procured a cooled refrigerated van to reduce the perishability and damage of fresh fruit and vegetables on transit to retail shops, mainly in the Takoradi area. The cold van among other deliverables will significantly improve the turn-around time and boost the operations of the company.

The HortiFresh team visited Ropryn’s and this is what the Executive Director Mr. Prince Manu Yeboah had to say, “the van has come in very handy and timely to improve the turn-around time, maintain the quality of products from the point of dispatch to delivery”.

He also stated that the overall impact of this van has helped to increased awareness for the Ropryn brand just by its routine delivery activities. Ropryn’s project among other deliverables will also procure and install cold storage facility to position the company to receive bulk produce with significant volumes from its out-growers, without the fear of post-harvest losses as well as the registration of its outgrowers and nucleus farm on the Ghana Green Label Certification scheme.