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provide a very wide opportunities for investors.
Agriculture is, indeed, the main economic
activities of the people of Kogi State.
About 80% of the population are engaged
in it. There is a wide stretch of arable
land for farming, good grazing ground for
livestock and large bodies of water for
fishing and cash crops commonly grown in
commercial quantities. These include –
yam, cassava, rice, maize guinea corn, cocoa,
coffee, cashew, palm trees etc. The potential
for fish farming and production is equally
very high with over 2,000 fishing ponds
and 200 major fishing villages sustained
by the Rivers Niger and Benue and streams
all over the state. The agricultural potentials
are very good sources of raw materials for
agro-allied industries such as flour mills
fruit juice processing, starch, animal feeds,
vegetable oil and soup producing among others.
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