Imo State government has started its plan to establish two new commercial palm plantations in the state with the assistance of Malaysian experts. The state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, made this known in a breakfast meeting with All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, leaders at the government house, Owerri.
Governor Okorocha, who recounted the efforts his administration has made since inception to take the state to an enviable height, said Imo shall return to a palm produce state, with two additional palm plantations for commercial purposes.
He recalled that Malaysia developed its country through palm seedlings collected from Nigeria, regretting that Nigeria is still at the elementary stage of oil palm production. He also stressed the need to harness some of the natural mineral resources the state is endowed with.
He therefore called on the leaders of APGA and other leaders in the state to contribute their own quota by creating avenues for job opportunities in the state and announced that the state-owned oil palm plantation, Adapalm, is now Imo Palm Plantation.
In his speech, the director Felda Palm Industry, Malaysia, Mr Jacob Hajia Kasolan, who was present at the meeting assured that his team would assist the state government to rehabilitate its oil palm plantation.
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