On Thursday, 12th January 2017, the federal government of Nigeria declared that Nigeria will become Africa’s largest cocoa producer and exporter soon. This was following the inauguration of Cocoa Re-launch Committee with Dr Olayiwola Oluwole as Chairman at the headquarters of the Ministry in Abuja.

“Cocoa can be grown in many parts of the country. We are going to have cocoa relaunch campaign in March at Ondo State, and we want all cocoa farmers from cocoa producing states to be present,” said Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

According to Ogbeh, Nigeria can earn huge foreign exchange from cocoa as oil and gas have done damage to our economy. Therefore, Nigeria has to go back to agriculture to rescue the economy. This made him express confidence in the newly inaugurated committee and charged them not to hesitate to come up with a useful approach to moving Nigeria’s cocoa producing capacity higher than it has been.

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