NPPAN Urges President Tinubu To Prioritise Tree Crop Planting

The managing director/chief executive officer, Hebron Integrated Farms and Mills Ltd, and the national president of the National Palm Produce Association of Nigeria (NPPAN), Mr Alphonsus Inyang, has said that attention should be given to tree crops planting.

The tree crops include oil palm, cocoa, rubber, coffee, cashew, shea, dates, coconut, avocado, tea, grapes among other trees crops. This was made known while reacting to the president’s statement on agriculture.

According to him, the promotion of tree crops is one of the sectors that did not receive much attention during the previous government.

He said though Nigeria was the leading producer of some of the three crops, such as cocoa and oil palm in the 1960s, it has since lost its position among the producing countries that are earning billions of dollars every year.

He said President Ahmed Tinubu should make Nigeria a country of all agricultural commodities and import the same commodities because of lack of focus on some specific commodities for primary production and processing

Lateefah Ibrahim