The National President of the Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria, Adeola Adegoke, has said that Cross River State will soon become the largest producer of cocoa in Nigeria.
Mr Adegoke stated this at the inauguration of the Executive Committee of the Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria in Cross River, on Friday, in Calabar.
According to him, Ondo State is known to be the largest producer of the crop in the country.
He said that the average age of a cocoa farmer in Ondo was between 55 and 60, describing this as an ageing population.
Mr Adegoke said that Cross River has the potential in the massive land and forest for cocoa farming, coupled with the youthful population cultivating the crop in the state.
Though the association’s national president acknowledged the potential, he, however, said that the state had to tap into them to succeed, as cocoa alone could run the state’s economy effectively.
“Enough of talking about cocoa estates established by the old…
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