The Federal Government has said Nigeria will soon become the largest cocoa producer in the world and resume exportation of the products.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Dr Mohammad Abubakar said this yesterday at the presentation of cocoa soils training manuals in Abuja.
Abubakar noted that articulated research by experts had gone into the cocoa production manual on how to increase production.
“Researchers have also gone to find out why cocoa production is not at its best here, because we have all it takes to be the best.
“From what has been carried out, we have identified the pitfalls, with this manual, we will return to exporting cocoa, it will become better than what we used to be.
“The pitfalls have been discovered, including the ease of production and planting which we will know what to do now”, he said.
Explaining further, Abubakar said Nigeria should be the best cocoa producing country in the world because it can be grown in many parts of the country.
