Idanre, an ancient town in the Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State, is about 20 km away from Akure, the state capital. With a population of a little less than 200,000, it is a town known with many hills and rocks. This unique feature has over time transformed the town into a major tourist destination in the country. Idanre is mainly a Yoruba speaking community, aside local dialect with the majority into farming and trading of cocoa produce.
Idanre is also gifted with a very fertile soil, which is considered most suitable for the cultivation of cocoa production. Indeed, with a large concentration of cocoa farms, it is clearly a major cocoa-producing area in Nigeria. Idanre is also richly endow with mineral and natural resources like Kaolin, Quarts, and other valuable minerals that help to improve the fertility of the soil can be found in idanre. Hence, the high yields in agricultural products, particularly cocoa in Idanre is as a result of this favourable condition in the area
Cocoa, an important cash crop in Nigeria, is produced here in a large scale. The crop has served as a major source of revenue for the inhabitants of the town and Ondo State in particular. Investigation shows that the town alone accounts for about 13 per cent of the total volume of cocoa produced in the 18 Local Government Areas in Ondo State.
In spite all these large quantity, idanre has been facing a lot of challenges, which has also funded a huge set back to the productions and in the expansion of the cocoa business that need the intervention of entrepreneurs to exploit.Continue reading from
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