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By Richard Drasimaku
ARIA CITY: 22/6/2025
Atiku said at the current price, a farmer can earn about sh88m from one acre of cocoa plantation.
When planted at the recommended spacing of 3m×3m, a farmer would have 450 cocoa tree and the trees yield between 1kg and 2 kg in first harvest usually at three years, increasing to average 6kg per preplant at six years and peaking at 15kg at 15 years of maturity, according to the Bagungu Agricultural Tecknologies ltd.
This means that the minimum a person can earn from an acre of cocoa at the start is sh22.5m, rising as the years and yields increase.
Atiku disclosed that the Russian Investors whom he has met are demanding for 500,000 metric tonnes of dry cocoa seeds.
This could mean they have about sh1b toinvest and such a demand would require thousands of households to fulfill.
With such a source of income, households cannot remain languishing in poverty, he noted.
Atiku assured the people that he has already tried and tested cocp.a. at his own farm and the crop is doing very well.
“So therefore if you have land there, go home and start preparing it for planting next year,” he told residents during a consultative meeting with his campaign mobilizes at Alamos Country Club gardens on Saturday.
This was Atiku’s final preparation to launch the campaigns for the National Resistance Movement flag bearers in Which West Constituency.
Unlike the general election polls which are by secret ballot, the NRM primary is by lining behind the candidate of a photo of the candidate.
At least 18 nursery beds ànwill be established, one in each ward and will be looked after by 180 casuals whose training is schedruled for next week.
They will also participate in seedling distribution.
Atiku argued that emfinancially empowered families or households can not fail to support their children in education.
In fact education was an area of specific emphasis in his humour-laden speech s he recounted sponsoring about 121 students during his first term as a legislator.
Atiku said he recently met examiners from entire Ayivu who are exploring ways to better assess children.
He he will work with the teachers to ensure that first grades return to Stick primary schools.
