Believes Nigeria can return to the glory days of leadership in cocoa production. In this interview with Abdulkareem Mojeed
) believes Nigeria can return to the glory days of leadership in cocoa production. In this interview with Abdulkareem Mojeed, he spoke on the problems facing the cocoa value chain and current solutions being effected to revive the sector. Excerpts:: Before Nigeria discovered oil, cocoa was the number one foreign exchange commodity and from there a lot of things was achieved, by then western region of Nigeria. Things like University of Ife, Liberty stadium,and so on.
Later on, another government came and brought in Cocoa transformation agenda. During that period, some inputs were also provided to farmers and CRIN played a pivotal role. However, all these efforts have not been actually yielding enough results that could catapult Nigeria back to second largest cocoa producers.
In 2011, CRIN released eight new cocoa varieties, we call them T.C Series. These T. C Series varieties is so interesting when you compare its performance with what we have in the past. The latest we had before TC series had a maximum production of about 400kg/ha/yr, every other things put into place, you can’t get more than that but for the recent T.C series, the minimum production you can get per hectare per year is about 1500 kg/ha. You can even get up to 2300kg per hectare per year.
PT: How much of partnership does CRIN have with universities and other countries like Ivory Coast and Ghana who are already getting cocoa right? Another thing is lack of adequate cooperation among all players across cocoa value chains. Like I told you the other time, for instance, between 2011-2015, we gave out 601,000 pods for farmers to produce additional seedlings in order to improve upon what we have on the field. Our findings later made us establish that most of the farmers that collected thousands of cocoa pods free did not put into adequate use in producing seedlings.
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