Nigeria: ‘Agro-forestry will create jobs for youths, rid cocoa, cashew-producing states of criminals’

게시됨 2021년 2월 22일

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The article introduces Dr Patrick Adebola, the new Executive Director of the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN), who discusses the institute's role in enhancing cash crop production and addressing challenges like low productivity in cocoa and poor quality planting materials in cashew. Adebola emphasizes the potential of agro-forestry farms for youth engagement and the benefits of improved planting materials. He also touches on the underutilization of forests and the need for agricultural reforms, including the introduction of hydroponic technology and the establishment of more processing factories. Adebola highlights CRIN's role in researching and developing high-yield varieties and value-added by-products, with a focus on knowledge transfer to youths and entrepreneurs.

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Dr Patrick Adebola is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN), Ibadan, Oyo State. He explains how most forests can be developed for agro-forestry farms to engage youths in cash crop production; the challenges confronting cocoa and cashew production, and availability of improved planting materials and distribution impediments, among others. FEMI IBIROGBA, Head, Agro-Economy, reports. Nigeria produces fewer tonnes of cocoa beans yearly than Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire. What are the factors responsible for the poor productivity in Nigeria and how can they be resolved? First, most of the cocoa trees in Nigeria have been existing from about 40 to 60 years and even more. Therefore, those plantations have declined in productivity and there is a need to either plant new ones or that the old plantation undergoes thorough rehabilitation. This is one of the reasons the productivity is low. Secondly, there is the issue of the quality of planting ...

출처: Guardian