Nigeria produces 20% of domestic coconut demand

Published 2021년 6월 9일

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The Nigerian government has identified a gap between local coconut production and demand, currently at 20% and 80% respectively. To address this issue, the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Ambassador Mariam Yalwaji Katagum, is boosting the capacity of the National Coconut Producers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria. The Association is also planning to establish 10,000 hectare coconut plantations in each of the viable states in Nigeria, as part of the 'One Family Three Coconut Trees' campaign, with the aim of making Nigeria one of the largest coconut producers in Africa and the world.

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Nigeria presently produces about 20 percent of the domestic coconut demand. "We cannot continue to import what we can produce locally. To achieve this, it is imperative to build the capacity of National Coconut Producers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria, to scale up their capacity to efficiently manage the coconut business in Nigeria. The Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Ambassador, Mariam Yalwaji Katagum, said this during the flag-off of the 2021 coconut planting season held in Abuja yesterday organized by the National Coconut Producers and Marketers Association of Nigeria (NACOPPNAM). "The Coconut is a commodity with lots of economic, medicinal and nutritional value and the market for it in Nigeria is huge. Unfortunately, the local supply can only meet about 20 percent of the demand, hence the need to urgently address the supply side constraints," she said. She said the Association is promoting the establishment of 10,000 hectares of Coconut ...

Source: All Africa