FADU Charges Cocoa Farmers on Increased Yield

Cocoa

Farmers’ Development Union (FADU) has advised Cocoa farmers in Ondo State to allow all the training and techniques acquired reflect in their production output.

The programme coordinator of the union, Victor Olowe stated this at the Annual Farmers’ Day celebration held in Akure, the State Capital.

In justifying the training received, he charged farmers to strive towards surpassing their 250kg per hectare to 1000kg per hectare of cocoa harvest.

He explained that the social lives of the farmers will improve when their income is enhanced, adding that this can only be achieved if the output of the produce increases.

“It is our desire to see you live good and fulfilled lives like other professionals and business men in the country” Olowe said.

The Programme Coordinator of the Union, commended the Federal Government over its various intervention activities geared towards ensuring production of good quality and certified cocoa to meet the global growing demand.

He therefore appealed to cocoa farmers to cooperate with government, in order to actualize the 1000kg per hectare target before the end of the year.

According to him, the overall objectives of the project is to create a growing, sustainable and efficient value chain for certified cocoa, thereby improving economic, social and environmental conditions of the Nigerian cocoa farmers in Ondo and Osun State.

“The project came up as a result of poor handing of Cocoa production in Nigeria. You will recall that Nigeria before now was the leading producer of cocoa in the World but today all our neighbors in the West Africa Sub-region have exceeded our production level” Olowe noted.