From time immemorial, traditional remedies derived from plants were primary sources of medical care for the great majority of the world population. More than 200 rainforest plants have anti cancer properties and others are used to trea t glaucoma, hodgkin disease and amoebic dysentery among others. The discovery of potent cancer drug periwinkle ( Vinca roseus) is a well known success story of plant based medicines.
QUINN AVERY LIMITED COMPANY proposes to take advantage of the current interest in plant medicines worldwide which has been fuelled by the health conscious craze and aversion to artificially simulated drugs, resulting in an enhanced prospects for herbal and medicinal plants
Ghana - gateway to West Africa (with population of about 419 million people as of 2021) - like the majority of countries of the Sub - Saharan Africa which depends on just four products viz tea, cocoa, coffee and timber for more than 50% of their export earnings also depend mainly on cocoa, timber and precious metals.
The unstable and sometimes plummeting commodity prices combined with high cost of production and soaring interest rates have led to severe debt servicing problems for these countries . To address such distortion in the economy a major policy objective of the World Bank supported Economy Recovery Programme (ERP) has been to break away from the over dependence on a few primary exports commodities and to diversify the export base into non- traditional products so as to encourage an export led growth strategy for the economy
The potential for growth in the non - traditional sub sector is enormous considering the demand and price on the commodity market and more importantly the opportunities for value addition through agro - industrialization.
Majority of Ghanaians have now known the efficacy of foreign herbs in curing diseases and are now developing the trend of using foreign herbal products in Ghana. There is a large market for these herbal products in Ghana and we intend establishing herbal shops nationwide whereby we go into the importation of some of these foreign Herbal products for distribution.
In furtherance of the objectives set above, the company has acquired some lands and through an out grower scheme the land would be available to support the efforts at non-traditional export production and processing.
The Ghana's government present Agricultural policy is geared towards the development and promotion of non - traditional export. And as part of a broad national objective to diversity the export base so as to facilitate an export led growth strategy; the corporate objectives of Quinn Avery Company Ltd. Fit well into the national matrix.