A development organisation, Solidaridad Nigeria, has unveiled a sustainable management plan aimed at increasing oil palm productivity and improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Akwa Ibom State.
The plan was unveiled on Friday in Uyo during a stakeholders’ workshop organised under the National Initiatives for Sustainable and Climate-Smart Oil Palm Smallholders project.
Speaking at the event, the Programme Manager of Solidaridad Nigeria, Ernest Ita, said the plan would serve as a framework for farmers and government authorities to promote sustainable oil palm production.
He said the framework focused on economic, social and environmental sustainability, with policy and inclusion as cross-cutting issues.
He said, “Solidaridad in Nigeria has developed a sustainable management plan, which is a framework and strategy in order to ensure that oil palm production in the four states: Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Enugu, and Kogi where we implement the NISCOPs project, applies. This is to ensure that
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