The Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria has expressed its willingness to work with the incoming administration of Bola Tinubu in order to improve the cocoa industry in the country.
The group said cocoa farmers expected a lot from the administration of Tinubu but said it would work with the administration to bring about regulations for the cocoa industry.
The National President of the CFAN, Comrade Adeola Adegoke, stated this in Akure after he was reelected to lead the association for another four years.
He said, “Our agenda is for us to be the highest cocoa-producing country in the world and increase productivity per hectare. We will work with Tinubu to ensure the National Cocoa Management Committee put in place by Buhari is solidified and provided the enabling National Assembly Acts that will spur investment into the sector, strengthen the research system and make available subsidies inputs for our farmers.
“If you look at the investments in rice and other commodities, they are not commensurable to cocoa. Forex from cocoa is still the highest in the country.
“We have seen that our farmers are getting poorer. We have seen the quality noted for the Nigeria cocoa industry is no longer there. We do not have better sustainable practices. The focus of commitment to grow the cocoa economy in most of the cocoa-producing states is no longer there.
“The present system where there is no system is unacceptable to us. There will be a social revolution to see that the only way to create wealth for our states is to go back to quality production of coca and mass empowerment of our farmers. We will work together with the incoming administration,” he said.
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