Women Icons: GEPA celebrates Theresa Poku for creating jobs through pineapple business

The Managing Director of OHU Farms, Theresa Poku, has been honoured at the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) Women Icons Regional Exhibition in Koforidua in the Eastern Region.

Poku for her ambitious effort and encouraged young entrepreneurs to strive for excellence.

The Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheapong, in a speech delivered on his behalf by the Director of Administration at the Eastern Regional Coordinating Council, Moses Kobla Joshua, urged Ghanaians to support female entrepreneurs to acquire the necessary skills, funding, and network opportunities that will help them succeed.

He lauded GEPA for instituting the Women Icons Regional Exhibitions, adding that female entrepreneurs deserve to be celebrated as a way of encouraging more women to set up businesses.

Women’s Icons is an initiative by GEPA to promote women-led businesses while building their capacity for the export market.

As part of the 2023 edition, other regional capitals will host exhibitions where prominent female entrepreneurs will be celebrated.

Theresa Poku is a farmer and businesswoman, who started pineapple farming along the Southern Belt of the Eastern Region’s Akuapem Hills, and now produces four varieties of jam for both the local and export markets.