State Governor, Udom Emmanuel who disclosed this while hosting San Carlos – a group of agro-allied investors from Mexico expressed that the partnership with investors was in line with the focus of his administration to ensure food sufficiency and create wealth for sustainability.
According to the Chairman, Technical Committee on Agriculture, Professor Edet Udoh; “A Memoranda of Understanding has been signed with the San Carlos Group on areas of comparative advantage and a cattle ranch is to be established at Adadia, Uruan Local Government Area beginning with 2,000 herds of cattle in the first phase.”
Speaking on the production process of cocoa, Professor Udoh stressed that farmers would be provided with a new variety for quality yields.
“They will take off with the harvest of cocoa yields using the international standard to control quality for export as well as introduce a new breed of cocoa and provide a nursery to nurture the new variety that would be given to farmers”, he said.
The investors, while expressing optimism on the deal, also spoke about procedural details and set objectives of the partnership. They explained that white almond cocoa variety that would be introduced to cocoa farmers in Ini Local Government Area of the state while a fermentation plant would be established in the area to save the grower the stress of wastage due to poor processing and ensuring quality of the cocoa seeds for export.
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