 Nigeria Exports Promotion Council aware smart office as organized sensitization program on global best practices in cocoa production and processes for exports to promote cocoa farming as alternative to over dependent on oil. Speaking during the workshop, which themed optimizing the potentials of cocoa production for export in imo state, the Exports Promotion Council boss in imo state says as a nation whose survival depends on non-oil export, effort to be made to increase the state's share of the global market. He noted that cocoa production, if taped, into has the capacity to turn around people's livelihood, create employment, influence value addition, as a raw material for various products like cocoa drinks, wine biscuits, chocolate, cocoa buttercream and so on. The commissioner for agricultural imo stated Bhatti Okorochiko, while declaring that the event opened said the government of imo would partner with farmers to boost cocoa production in the state. If we look at what cocoa has done, cocoa has been the lead of the list of exports products we have in Nigeria. In the last year, cocoa was second to urea and we met 3.4 billion years dollar. Coco had up to 5 or something million dollars from the exporter for Nigeria. So we have to leverage that to increase production so that we export more. As we produce more, we have more for family addition, so that farmers here will benefit, those at value will benefit, and to attract investments. Doing a lot in terms of all this cash problem, but not only talking of cocoa, look at coconuts. Coconut has a lot of high value, because the world has a lot of high value, people are neglected on that aspect. So we are reawakening half of the world's society as also handling that aspect. The palm oil, we know of the palm oil, more and more interest is also shown in palm oil. And export business is also happening, the processing and all the rest of them is also happening in that particular aspect. So it's something that it has to be to champion the effects of government, to also feel the impact of government, and also advance our economic status in respect to the state.