By Ogar Monday; House of Assembly Correspondent The Cross River State Government has revealed that plans are in top gear to actualize the 500,000 metric tons per annum for cocoa production rates. The chairman of the house assembly committee on Public accounts and member representing Obudu, Stephen Ukpukpen made this known recently when the committee
By Ogar Monday The Cross River State Government said it has set for itself the target of producing 500, 000 metric tons of cocoa on a yearly basis to help in economic diversification and add to already depleting federal allocation. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Professor Augustine Eneji made the disclosure at a stakeholders meeting
By CrossRiverWatch admin Mr Oscar Ofuka, Chairman, Cross River Cocoa Technical Management Team, has condemned the recent burning of the Benbege Cocoa Plantation and Settlement in Etung Local Government Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that some unidentified youths from the area set the plantation and hundreds of building in
By Jonathan Ugbal The ability of cocoa farmers to comprehend and prepare adequately for changes in the agricultural sub sector in terms of pricing is a determining factor for true success in the business. This and many more were part of the lessons learned from modules delivered by experts in the cocoa business from across
by crossriverwatch admin Cocoa shipments from Nigeria’s second-largest grower, Cross River State, have halted in the past week owing to a disagreement over a levy imposed by the state government on exporters who did not use the state’s port to ship their beans, a trade body said. Spokesman for the Cocoa Association of Nigeria, Godwin
by crossriverwatch admin Farmers in Cross River State are fighting blackpod disease as rainfall increases in the South East of the country. “The rain pattern is causing infection to crops,” Godwin Ukwu, a farmer and spokesman for the Cocoa Association of Nigeria, said in a phone interview on Wednesday from Ikom, the largest cocoa-producing area