CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Ada Songor Lagoon and its surrounding areas represent the biggest prospective salt producing body in Ghana. It represents the most favorable and unique location to assure outstanding development of the salt industry in the country. Ada Songor Lagoon, surface area has been granted to four concessionaires. Also, the local inhabitants have been winning salt, using traditional methods, in the lagoon and there are seven societies registered for salt harvesting. Salt production following the principles of modern technology is contradictory with the method traditionally followed by the salt winners, whereby the lagoon is allowed to dry. The salt winners are interested in getting the lagoon dried by the middle of the salt season to start winning the crystallized salt within the lagoon, while the companies need to have the lagoon filled with to facilitate sustained salt crystallization in the pans located at the shores of the lagoon. The difference in the production methods and other problems, arising as a result of the management of this producing body, provoked serious misunderstandings which pampered salt production in the area. Actually, salt reserves in Ada Songor Lagoon are fast diminishing due to the non entrance of new sea-water into the Lagoon. Under these circumstances it is obvious that salt production will be adversely affected. Ada Songor Lagoon salt production capacity is over 1,200,000 tons per year. This capacity is enough to afford operation of the different concerned parties. This means that if the technological solutions being proposed are accepted, then the source/basis for the conflict in the area will be removed. The Master Plan has been prepared with the understanding that the Songor Lagoon will be used as a common resource for brine management. The local co-operative societies registered and duly recognized will also be located at the “shores” of the lagoon and will crystallize salt in their own crystallizing pans from brine partly concentrated in the evaporating ponds. Construction of the two sea inlet arrangements to feed sea-water to the lagoon constitutes a basic premise for the solution of salt production proposed in the Master Plan. The distribution of the production capacities for Ada Songor Lagoon was made taking into consideration: for the companies, the crystallizing possibilities in the present crystallizing areas and disposable future areas; for the co-operative societies, the remaining capacity distributed proportionately to the corresponding membership.
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Ada Songor Lagoon and its surrounding areas represent the biggest prospective salt producing body in Ghana. It represents the most favorable and unique location to assure outstanding development of the salt industry in the country. Ada Songor Lagoon, surface area has been granted to four concessionaires. Also, the local inhabitants have been winning salt, using traditional methods, in the lagoon and there are seven societies registered for salt harvesting. Salt production following the principles of modern technology is contradictory with the method traditionally followed by the salt winners, whereby the lagoon is allowed to dry. The salt winners are interested in getting the lagoon dried by the middle of the salt season to start winning the crystallized salt within the lagoon, while the companies need to have the lagoon filled with to facilitate sustained salt crystallization in the pans located at the shores of the lagoon. The difference in the production methods and other problems, arising as a result of the management of this producing body, provoked serious misunderstandings which pampered salt production in the area. Actually, salt reserves in Ada Songor Lagoon are fast diminishing due to the non entrance of new sea-water into the Lagoon. Under these circumstances it is obvious that salt production will be adversely affected. Ada Songor Lagoon salt production capacity is over 1,200,000 tons per year. This capacity is enough to afford operation of the different concerned parties. This means that if the technological solutions being proposed are accepted, then the source/basis for the conflict in the area will be removed. The Master Plan has been prepared with the understanding that the Songor Lagoon will be used as a common resource for brine management. The local co-operative societies registered and duly recognized will also be located at the “shores” of the lagoon and will crystallize salt in their own crystallizing pans from brine partly concentrated in the evaporating ponds. Construction of the two sea inlet arrangements to feed sea-water to the lagoon constitutes a basic premise for the solution of salt production proposed in the Master Plan. The distribution of the production capacities for Ada Songor Lagoon was made taking into consideration: for the companies, the crystallizing possibilities in the present crystallizing areas and disposable future areas; for the co-operative societies, the remaining capacity distributed proportionately to the corresponding membership.