Dr Ekow Spio-Garbrah, Minister for Trade and Industry says Africa could grow more rapidly on the back of its great potential for industrialisation if it could fix its power deficits over the next few years. In his remarks to the Forum, Dr Spio-Garbrah cited the vast energy resources of Africa, from oil and gas, to solar, coal, wind, biomass and even sea waves. He invited Brazilian experts to assist Ghana in ensuring the effective management of this new industry. Dr Spio-Garbrah emphasized that for power to assist Africa to industrialise the needed to be the development of the right policies, the harmonisation of regulations, and the efficiency in the operational management of both power plants and industries. The factory visited by the Minister is owned by the Petribu family who have been producing sugar for more than three hundred years.