Palm oil production: C ’River procures100,000 improved seedlings
Prof. Anthony Eneji, the Cross River
Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, says the State
Government has procured 100,000 Tenera oil palm seedlings from the
Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research, Benin for the 2016/2017
planting season.
The Commissioner said this in an
interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar on Sunday.
Eneji told NAN that the seedlings would
be distributed to oil palm growers in the state free of charge.
He said the seedlings would be moved to
four strategic local government areas in the state which include
Akamkpa, Yakurr, Ikom and Ogoja for easy distribution to farmers.
The professor said the procurement of
the seedlings was part of the state government’s efforts to
increase palm oil production and reposition agriculture.
The commissioner said that the Gov. Ben
Ayade-led administration was determined to assist willing farmers in
the state to realise their potential.
He expressed optimism that the
government’s dream of making the state self-sufficient in oil palm
produce and an exporter of the commodity would soon be realised.
“The state government is determined
to empower every home in this state to have an income capable of
sustaining itself.
“The state would soon take its proper
place and become the number one oil palm producer in the country,”
he said.
Eneji advised farmers across the state
to take advantage of the opportunity to grow more palm trees. (NAN)
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