Emmanuel Akinsanya, the managing director, Datum Nigeria Company, a local raw material research firm, has urged state governments to explore the resources within their domain.
Mr. Akinsanya gave the advice on Thursday, in Lagos, ahead of the company’s forthcoming international exhibition of local products and services in all sectors of the economy.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the 6-day exhibition, with the theme: ‘The challenges of productivity in a modern economy’, will hold between November 29 and December 4 in Lagos.
Mr. Akinsanya said that before the discovery of oil, Nigeria was a major exporter of palm oil, cocoa, and groundnut. According to him, there is need for states to go back to modern agriculture, to produce these raw materials in sufficient quantities because their by-products are needed in today’s industries.
He said states that have resources should explore them, to enrich their revenue generation, instead of depending on Federal Government’s monthly allocations.
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