Dr Nma Okoroji, National President of the association made the call on the sideline of the commemoration of the World Coconut Day on Saturday in Abuja.
She said establishment of processing industries in the states would avail the group the opportunity to process every component of the coconut like the shell, water, coconut meat, fibrous husk and packaging same for export. “The Coconut exocarp, fibrous husk, shell, oil, water, the coconut meat among others is money,” Okoroji added.Okoroji said the programme envisioned plantations of 10,000 hectres in each of the coconut viable states which entails one family to three coconut trees initiative.
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