We’ve invested N3b to boost cocoa business in Ondo, Nigeria – Johnvents Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu will next week launch a multi-billion naira cocoa processing plant to boost Nigeria’s export trade. Already, the agro-allied indigenous company handling the project, Johnvent Industries Nigeria Limited, has invested N3 billion to boost cocoa business in the state […]
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Plans to establish the largest cocoa plantation in Africa have been concluded by the Ondo State Government. Ondo is Nigeria’s largest cocoa producing state. The state government announced this through the Agriculture Commissioner, Mr Gboyega Adefarati, confirming that the massive plantation would sit on 2,000 hectares of cocoa plantation at Ijugbere, in Owo Local Government […]
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Nigeria’s cocoa will soon regain its glory in the country and beyond, the new leadership of the Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN) under Mr. Adeola Adegoke has said. Adegoke, who was elected CFAN National President at the weekend in Akure, the Ondo State capital, spoke after his election victory. There were delegates from 13 […]
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– targets planting at least one million seedlings, raising 5, 000 modern cocoa farmers – CAN wants government to produce one million tonnes yearly Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu SAN, has said the Cocoa Rebirth Initiative of his administration is gradually and consistently addressing the production and distribution of improved cocoa varieties with early […]
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As part of efforts at boosting the tree crop sub sector of the agricultural value chain, the Ondo State Government has established another Cocoa Plantation at Ijugbere in Owo Local Government Area. The project to be on two thousand hectares of land of which 35 hectares have been planted with improved cocoa seedlings, also has […]
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