In 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan initiated the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) to drive economic growth, jobs and food security.
This policy was supervised by Akinwumi Adesina, the then agric minister, who later became the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB).
Under ATA, there were sub-sector policies meant to drive key crops on which the nation had comparative advantage.
One of such policies was the backward integration in palm oil, which was targeted at improving the nation’s refining capacity.
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