Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has called on the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations to come to the aid of the state in terms of financial support and provision of technical advisors for the state’s agricultural value chain. According to Ayade, his administration, had, for instance, taken the advantage of the abundance of groundnut in the Bekwarra Local Government Area of the state to set up a groundnut vegetable oil processing plant there. Stressing the need for Cross River to work closely with FAO to realise its agricultural objectives, the governor said: “Our core value chain focuses on the agricultural transformation of the state. The need to work with the FAO therefore, becomes very imperative. This is even as the much-expected COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory last Tuesday…Ayade urges FAO to extend agric value chain beyond cocoa, palm oilAyade urges FAO to extend agric value chain beyond cocoa, palm oil

Source: Nigerian Tribune March 14, 2021 15:56 UTC