Oil Palm Mills Stakeholder Urges Oil Mills Reactivation

A stakeholder in the
Oil Palm Milling industry, Mr. Gospel Iwori has called on the Rivers State Government to reactivate the various Oil Mills scartered around the State in other to boost production.
Mr. Iwori who came up with this during a chat with our Correspondent in Amalem in the Abua/Odual local government area of the State recently said the oil Palm Mills at Emesu and Otari all in Abua were intact and what needed to be done was reactivation.
He said the two Oil Mills used to be sources of employment in the area in the past.
He said the State government through the Ministry of Agriculture should set machinery in motion to reintroduce the Palm Produce Purchasing board.
He said this would encourage financial benefits to local producers of Palm Produce and save them from exploitation of middle men.
According to him, crude milling of palm oil was tidious and capital intensive.
He urged  government to make soft loans available to full time farmers in the area  not to relent in their activities as “that was their major means  of their livelihood.
On the need for co-operative groups, Mr. Iwori said the local people were poor and what they produce was only for consumption.