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Article Title: Towards Embracing Sustainable Capacity Building Needs in Cocoa Rebirth Programme for In-school and Out-school youths in Nigeria
by Alasa M. C (Ph.D) and Olaniregun J.F (Ph.D)

Abstract:
In some past decades, the production of cash crops like cocoa is as important as the turn which petroleum production takes recently. The advent of crude oil and oil boom led to economic down turn of cocoa in Nigeria. But recently, there is the advocacy for the regeneration of Nigerian cocoa industry through capacity building needs of farmers and youths. The Nigerian government has focused on the Cocoa Re-birth initiatives for ways of reviving the cocoa industries. By applying the analytical framework of agricultural system innovation, this paper traces the problems in the cocoa agro-industrial system which led to its down turn. It focuses on the roles which the government played in building farmers capacity in Nigeria in order to improve cocoa production and, implicitly, the education sector(teaching sub-sector) to improve youth awareness, knowledge and participation in cocoa production especially now that the circumstances of poverty ,unemployment and deprivations are prevalent in Nigeria which make young people to depend on their parents and others till about 40 years of age. Cocoa farmers and youths participation in Cocoa Rebirth Programme would help in bringing back the lost glory and overall cocoa production success. While farmers strive towards excellence in regenerating cocoa production, and with the government providing them the tools to succeed is an essential component of their growth and development as professionals. The revitalization of the Nigerian cocoa industry through Cocoa Re-birth would empower farmers and youth in agriculture with adequate capacity for nation building.

Keywords: Capacity Building, Rebirth, In-School Youth, Out -School Youth, Cocoa Industry

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