Mimiko to Akeredolu: Revive Idanre Chocolate Factory
The immediate past governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko has urged Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to bring life back to the Cocoa Chocolate factory in Idanre local government for the benefit of the people.
The former governor recalled with nostalgia that up to 1969, more than 60 percent of the country’s earnings came from cocoa production. The chocolate factory should be a pilot establishment to train people on how to produce chocolate, which had been the exclusive reserve of the expatriates.He, however, hailed Akeredolu for approving free distribution of large cocoa seedlings to farmers, noting that this would bring Ondo back to its glorious days as Nigeria’s number one cocoa producing state.
Such constraints, he said were old age of farmers and cocoa farms, urbanisation, price fluctuation, old varieties of cocoa and poor roads among others.
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