 The revolution is happening and it's happening right in front of your eyes and it's about time each and every African needs to get involved to see Africans converting raw materials into a finished product. It's something that we all need to talk about. You guys are changing the narrative. The narrative of Africans always exporting raw materials to the west for them to tell it into a finished goods and send it back to us for us to buy. That's the kind of revolution we are putting up here. So we are just harnessing the energy and the potentials of Africa to produce world-class products and put it out there. And once again, it's done by Africans. Sure, sure, full Africans. It means Africans are capable. And we have shown that by our project looking at the total value chain, looking at the as-going moving from land preparation all the way to that box of juice that you see on the shelf in Walmart. It comes from us. That's incredible. If you really want to have a taste of this natural juice from Ghana, check the link in the description. And trust me, your support will go a very, very long way. I believe that many Africans, especially Ghanians, would testify that a Kung-Fee story is a success story. It is. And what I believe they don't know is how the dream began. I'll tell you. It's a dream that has taken, even take 25 years. 25 years? Yes. Wait a minute. How old is this factory? This factory has been here since 28. We started the construction in 2018. And we finished and began the processing in December of 2019. So we've been here since 2019 December. And the journey began 25 years ago. Yeah, way back in 1998, we used to have this conversation about adding value to the produce from Ghana. You were good. You were exactly. Right. So two of us had this vision to process. And that was the 1998 dream. We started chasing it. And we had just come out of the investment. It's actually started on the campus of the University of Kipus. We're both Valko-Holles. And you know, Valko carries the target industrialist. So we were thinking in that sense. And we've been through to now. Along the line, we've been doing other things. We've been doing a lot of things. We've been doing the consultancy. We've been doing a little bit of food processing, et cetera, until we got here. And along the line, I know from what I read about you, you used to be a teacher. You used to be a teacher. Yeah, so I'm actually a teacher from the University of Kipus. But out from the university, I had done a lot more outside teaching. And I find myself here. I'm doing a little bit of civil engineering. I'm doing food technology. I'm doing agribusiness and agronomy. And all of that. I would love to see the factory. Do you take me there? Sure, most welcome. Let's go to see what happens in the factory. It's more like farm to factory. Sure, because that is what happens. From planting to maturity to day of harvest, that is today. And this process of harvesting triggers the processing. So from here, it moves straight to the factory. Because in the factory, we don't store anything. It comes directly from the farm straight into the pool and production begins. I don't think I'll ever stop clapping for you guys. How much you people are doing in this country. Wow, that's a huge factory. Yes, so welcome to the kumfi fruits and juices factory. Inside this magnificent building sits the production of the best, the premium best non-genetically modified juice. You saw the production. I saw it. That's what we do here. We produce from zero GMO, zero fertilizer. We use the organic fertilizer that we produce here. From our waste, we turn them into compost and take it back there to grow our pineapples. And inside here sits our processing machine. Let's have a look. I'm excited. I just want to see it. Can I see all the process? Sure, I'll take you through the process. Right, so what is it? Welcome to our processing. Thank you. So today I'm going to take you through the processing of pineapple and watermelon. Wow. With a taste of ginger, which you will see inside there. So once they arrive, they arrive like this from the farms after they harvest that we took part in. So they arrive here and straight away they come into this pool. So this pool, yes. So this pool does three things. First of all is to clean it. Obviously this has been exposed to the weather all its life. So it comes through cleaning before we go. The pineapples are supposed to be whole. The watermelons are supposed to be whole. Now if they are broken for any reason by not by us, by any external factor once they come into the pool, they will go down, they will sink. So we call them sinkers. It is not good for processing. We're going to follow the process to come along with us. Let's go. Welcome. Thank you. Right. So it is likely a pineapple which is not too good. It might get protection from the others and will not sink till it gets here and up here. So on this slide we have the human beings. We call this the inspection table to now look through and then take the ones that have escaped on the farm, escaped in the water and are here. The finance. So from here comes the washing. The washing and cleaning happens here. This machine contains brushes and has water to do all the washing. Because of the nature of our processing we do not peel the pineapples. The machine does it. So we have to keep the pineapples and then the watermelon and whatever we process here as clean as possible. So this is the machine that does it. From here it goes up there. So these are watermelons that have just arrived for processing. So these are whole ones. These are the ones that have the incision. So the incision done so that the processing will be easier. But they will all go into the extractor for the juice to be extracted. So they take their lard back and they are off into the hopper. They drop into the hopper and there is a mechanism here to separate the peels from the pulp. So the peels come down here and are taken down there for waste control. While the pulp is sent into this roto machine for processing. From this machine it goes into the last machine which is a roto finisher. So you have three points of juice. The first point where there is the first extraction between the pulp and the peels juice will come out. So that takes the first time. In the roto presser there is another level of squeezing. So it takes juice will come from this point. And then there is this roto finisher which is the last point. So as you look up here you see three pipes going into the factory. And they are all carrying juice. Is that not the juice? No. So after the ginger extraction we drop them here. So the ginger has been milled so we mill the ginger and drop them here. So this is the onward processing. So the three pipes carrying the juice now enter into the process. So these are the three lines coming in. They are received in the tank one which has the intelligence system to communicate with the systems going forward. So let's work this way. From tank one it moves to the other times. But what is happening here beyond this point is tubular. It is going through the juice. So it is not exposed to any human contact. It is just running through the tubes. What happens here is that we expect because you saw watermelon you saw ginger and you saw pineapple. Because today we are doing the watermelon, pineapple and ginger mix. So we need to turn it well to stir it. So from this tank it is moved to these other tanks these two tanks which have the stairs up there to turn and get a good mixture. But before that you also don't want to see it sit for some time and separate like juices typically do. So we send it through this other machine it mixes it and blends it such that there will be no separation even after one year. Because you are putting your juice in an opaque box and you have shake well. But how well people shake you don't know. So you want to do the rise in the air. So we take it through the homogenizer and get a mixture done. From there it goes to the preheat which is also about 50, 60 degrees Celsius and then from here it moves straight into the pasteurizer. There is something very interesting about the pasteurizer. It does 125 degrees Celsius. That is extremely hot. Yes, extremely. But by the time it lives here it is already chilling because there is a chill embedded on it. So from here there is still no contact just goes through the tubes. It runs here and straight into filling. I have still not seen the additives. There is no additives so far I have not seen anything like that. I am just waiting for him to make that mistake and say that oh, we drop a little bit of sugar from the sun. Zero. Zero. We have thousands and thousands of acres of sugar loaves and smooth cayenne. We have no business adding one drop of water. Because once you add water you have to add other things and all of that. We are committed to providing non-genetically modified juice that has no additives. No concentrations. Zero. We don't do concentrations here. You don't have any powder somewhere? No. So you can look around. We have done the processing. So tell if you can if you can see something somewhere connecting something. Wow. Next step. For a major producer like this if you want to do additive it cannot be on a spoon. It is quite huge and you should see something here. Right. This room is actually chilled. So these gentlemen you see are the operators of the machine. They still have no contact with the juice because the juice comes in the tubes and it goes straight into filling. So the curtains will go in here it gets full then and it is filled inside the machine and all you have is the juice coming out. So come see, come see the process. So this is the final juice? Yes. But not final. Not final? Because what you see here is the juice coming from the machine and it is still not finished. Because this is a 250 ml there is a caesarean mark here so you can make an incision and then drink from it. However it is desirable that you have a straw. So it goes to the next level which attaches the straw we can look at it. So what we have from here is what we saw in the now with the dates now it has to do the straw attachment. So it goes through this straw attachment which shoots the straw from this side and automatically attaches to them. So at this point you are ready for the market. At this point they are ready for me. Wow. And I can see people are packing it up. Sure. That's awesome. How many in these boxes? So there's 24 pieces in a box. This is the final part of the journey we took this morning that has taken us all the way to the farm through harvesting to processing. So it hits up like this coming out from this shrink wrap machine so we have your premium juice packed in a package 24 pieces in a carton. So how many cartons do you guys produce in a day? So in a day typically we do per single shift we do about 3,000 of these. Wow. 3,000 cartons of these. 3,000? Yes. So do you have morning and evening shift? Sure. So a double shift we will do a double of this. So that's the production capacity that we have here. And both have different employees. Sure. Wow. So we have one shift coming in a day and another shift coming at night. At night. Now this is where I am in business. You see I am on a weight loss journey. Sure. And I want to know is this good for me? You know, no additives. So this is fruits. This is just fruits you are drinking. Fruit is good for you this is good for you. So since you don't add any additives does the life span? Okay. So what happens is that we take it through the pasteuriser the same process that evaporated milk et cetera will go through to stay that long. It's called a pasteuriser the process of pasteurisation. It's literally like a boiling but if you boil it you lose it is. So we take it through pasteurising and it goes through a chila. And then one thing is that this box that you see is airtight. Okay. So it holds it holds the life of the juice. In fact the moment it is open and there is the filtration of air you have to consume it. Otherwise it will go bad. So the moment you open the box it begins a new life. But it is sitting in an airtight four ply container. So what you see is four ply container or four ply package and it is airtight. So it has to be kept like this. If you keep it like this for a year you open and it is so fresh. The life span is one year. Yes it is a year. I am seeing like people are loading. So you take it to the market? So this is off to the market. So we have the trucks coming in here every day to load to the market. That's impressive man. So the trucks coming in every day to load and we also have the other ones going to the shops in the US for example to Walmart and all the tropical shops in the US. And very soon we are going to have this in the water market. Very soon we are going to have it in the water market but you know what if you are living in the US and it is an environment please you know what you need to do click on the link in the description the water market buy one I wanted to say buy one get one free but no just buy one to support this business that is happening in Africa and I think if somebody buys one what does it do to the ordinary people living in here. So what you are doing for the people of Ghana for Africa and indeed for the people of the Kulfi is that buying a box right support all the people you have seen on the field today the kind of impact we want to give out to the economy of Ghana and indeed the economy of Kulfi is that when you give that one out you buy you empower the farmer you empower the processor you empower the workers here and everybody to begin to do more. That's really incredible I wonder before I let you go if you had a chance to change one thing in Africa what will it be? That's exactly what we're trying to change it has always been our dream to see this narrative change where we're just taking out raw material or we're subordinating our ideas to the larger the larger thinking that as for Africa we can do anything that is standard we say let's put it to it when we put it to it we've been able to develop a product that is international in nature it meets all the standards and proudly sits in Walmart you should tell you the standard and the people that are operating all the machines in here are Ghanians so all the machines sitting down here do not belong to any producer no producer as their eyes set up they just sold components and we put them together so for all the components the manufacturer will come in to do installation that was part of the arrangement so they do installation they do training of our local people so that's what you see here and then they do test run and leave before the next person comes in will do same and leave so by the time we finish the finishing line there was no expatriate here and it was run from December of 2019 to this point only by our guys wow so they've had a chance to learn so now if there's a breakdown we don't have to worry too much because they are capable hands here so now they are far exceeded what we give them because now they are into into all the technicalities amazing I want to say thank you all so much for watching don't forget to like this video subscribe and most importantly share this video for others to see that there is a juice processing factory right here in Ghana thank you all and I'll see you all in the next one I am Maya peace out