Speaking
during a forum of food and agric writers in Lagos, the Monarch said cocoa was a
key export commodity central to the realisation of the Federal Government’s
targets towards sustainable development.
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He
said improving the lives of stakeholders working in cocoa production ultimately
will have a positive impact on the industry. http://www.tectono-business.com/2016/02/contemporary-step-by-step-guide-to.html
He said cocoa farmers lacked access to financial capital, land and labour,
apart from not getting insurance for their farms, which at times suffered from
droughts or bush fire.
Recent
flooding on cocoa plantations, according to him, killed off flowers and small
pods, and prevented farmers from working on their farms. http://www.tectono-business.com/2016/02/contemporary-step-by-step-guide-to.html
He
explained that heavy rains that poured on the farms made streams to overflow
and flowers and pods in their early stages of growth got destroyed.
He
said: “The flood is affecting everybody, particularly
this year; even in Eti-Oni, it affected farms. We are in the rain forest so,
definitely heavy rain will always affect us.”
He
urged financial institutions to tailor their products and services to meet the
particular needs of farmers, stressing the need for multi-stakeholder
collaboration to upscale the sharing of proven best practices in sustainable
cocoa production among smallholder rice farmers. http://www.tectono-business.com/2016/02/contemporary-step-by-step-guide-to.html
On
Eti-Oni, Oba Thompson, said was home to Nigeria’s oldest Cocoa plantation and
the birthplace of the crop in the Southwest. “The Cocoa
crop was introduced into Eti-Oni in 1896 by Gureje-Thompson and it was from
here that Cocoa spread to neighbouring towns and other parts of the region
where it later became the economic mainstay of Western Nigeria,” he
said.
He
also announced that this year’s Eti-Oni cocoa festival is scheduled for between
December 2 and 9 at Gureje Square, Eti-Oni, Osun State. http://www.tectono-business.com/2016/02/contemporary-step-by-step-guide-to.html
The
cocoa festival, according to him, is an initiative of the Eti-Oni Development
Group with an objective to create a renaissance in the industry and build
bridges between production and consumption to achieve sustainability. The other
goal, he said, is to transform the rural community of Eti-Oni into a
sustainable model smart town in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable
Development Goals (UN 2030 SDGs) through cocoa trade.
The
cocoa festival, he explained, will attract local and international exhibitors,
who will showcase primary and secondary products. It will also feature awards.
The awards will be given to individuals, corporate organisations or government
agencies or programmes in recognition of outstanding contribution to cocoa
development. http://www.tectono-business.com/2016/02/contemporary-step-by-step-guide-to.html
The
award categories will include: value chain development – policy
formulation and execution; cocoa
sustainability advocacy;
environmentally friendly practices;
development of women in cocoa;
commercial bank and cocoa promotion;
cocoa renaissance in Nigeria;
life-time personal contribution to cocoa development in Nigeria; social
impact initiatives -(individual or corporate organisation), ingenious research
development in cocoa; creative farmers training model; innovative agriculture
development programme; TV broadcast coverage on cocoa; news print/online
coverage on cocoa; ICT company and cocoa development and sustainable tourism.
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