Anambra Communities have been urged to embrace the Cash crop revolution programme of the Soludo administration to build a stronger and sustainable economic system.
Speaking in Awka, the Vice President Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Damian Okeke Ogene said that the scheme would also help to protect and beautify the environment.
Chief Okeke Ogene said that the initiative shows that Governor Chukwuma Soludo is looking inwards to reposition all forms of agricultural activities that could empower the people and provide them with multiple sources of income without burden of heavy investments.
He noted that the programme would also encourage the people to put their land to productive use, instead of leaving them fallow year after year and requires very little labour to maintain.
According to Chief Okeke-Ogene, the economic benefits of coconut and palm trees would enable families to feed and empower their members from generation to generation which will reduce hardship and poverty, as well as act as wind breakers to protect people from adverse effects of weather and call for a support to the Soludo administration through payment of taxes and levies.
Also speaking, an All Progressives Grand Alliance Chieftain, Dr Mike Omenugha said that Governor Soludo is redirecting the minds of Ndi Anambra back to land, to use what they have to generate what they need by putting their land’s to higher productivity.
Dr Omenugha noted that in addition to their economic values, coconut and palm trees have huge industrial values that would accelerate industrial development in the state and the country at large, as their products and by-products are used by many industries, including cosmetic factories as raw materials.
He urged communities and families that have collective land ownership to use such lands to embark on coconut and palm tree plantations that would help to build collective wealth to scale up their standards of living.
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