The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board, Mr. Tony Fofie has paid a day´s working visit to the construction site of ADM Cocoa Ghana Limited factory at Kumasi. The visit to the 16,000 square metre facility whose construction started last year and is expected to be completed in June, was at the invitation of the company. Briefing the CEO and his entourage, the General Manager of ADM Cocoa Ghana Limited, Mr. Pieter Frieling disclosed that his company had employed 90 permanent workers and many more as casual labourers for the construction of the facility. He appealed to the COCOBOD Chief Executive to ensure that enough light crop cocoa beans were available for the company since its raw material for operation would be made up of 80% light crop cocoa beans. Mr. Pieter Frieling conducted the COCOBOD chief and his entourage round the 30,000 tonnes capacity warehouse already stocked with 5,500 bags of cocoa beans in readiness for production in June. A processing factory equipped with state of the art machinery was undergoing a test run at the time of the visit. Mr. Tony Fofie commended the company for locating its factory outside the port cities of Tema and Takoradi and urged the management to live up responsible corporate attitudes in its operational area to ensure harmonious relations with the community. Mr. Fofie further assured the company of adequate arrangements to supply the facility and others with enough beans to keep their operations on course.