Coconut Association Wants 10,000 Headquarters Of Plantation For Massive Production.
Idris Ahmed, Lokoja.
National Coconut Producers and processors Association of Nigeria, (NACOPPMAN), Kogi state chapter, has planned to acquire over 10,000 hectares of plantation across the country for full sufficiency of coconut.
Kogi state coordinator of the association, Hajia Halirat Ladi Yakubu, who disclosed to participants on Wednesday, at a two day comprehensive training on coconut production held at the NUJ Press centre, Lokoja, said the commodity is a high revenue earner for the country.
She explained that the commodity , which is in high demand globally has economic, scientific, medical and architectural values aside delicacy for human beings.
According to the coordinator coconut business is flourishing widely and has impacted positively on the lives of the common manas the demand has heightened in view of its universal acceptance .
Hajia Ladi Yakubu therefore appealed to the youths and women to engage in the cultivation, processing and marketing of coconut as it has become a catalyst for economic advancement.
She equally advised the the ministries of agriculture and economic planning at all levels to key in to the programme by offering special support through policies and assistance to the farmers.
Farmers in droves besieges the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Lokoja to participate in the two day program that ended on Thursday.
