By Matthias Nwogu
Poised
to launch Abia back to a major Palm Produce state in the country and as
part of its economic programme of making agriculture the pivot of the
state economy, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu said the state has planted 150,
400 exotic palm seedlings.
He said
that the target of his administration is that by the year 2018 after
extant palm estate have been rehabilitated the state would have bounced
back as one of the major producers of Palm Produce in the country.
Abia
which has comparative advantage in oil palm, it could be recalled was
part of the defunct eastern region whose palm produce based economy was
adjudged the fasted growing economy in the country before the discovery
of crude oil.
The
Governor who disclosed this during an interactive section with
Journalists in Umuahia said that 400 Abia youths would soon leave for
Port Novo to understudy the innovative agricultural system in that West
African country.
In the
area of commerce he said that the foundation for the take-off of the
construction of industrial clusters in Aba for leather and fabric has
been laid with the recent tour of some of the artisans to Istanbul,
Turkey
He said
that the state has the capacity to manage and maintain the machines
that would soon arrive the state for the clusters which will bring
economy of scale to thousands of artisans who have been carrying out
their trades on individual levels.
The
Governor said that his administration has set in motion programmes to
reduce poverty and enhance employment which included the Education for
Employment programme (E for E) which he said has commenced in the three
technical schools in Aba, Umuahia and Ohafia.
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