Saraki salutes Nigerian who invented cocoa pod breaking machine
Senate President Bukola Saraki has commended Mr. Olusegun Arowolo, a 66-year-old Germany-based Nigerian engineer, for inventing a cocoa pod breaking machine that can break 30,000 cocoa pods in one hour, the first ever in the world. Senate President Bukola Saraki Saraki who gave the commendation last week in Abuja at the public demonstration of the machine known as Gideon Cocoa Pod Breaking Machine challenged the Nigerian youth to embrace technology and deploy the skills to promote commercial agriculture in the country. The Senate President, who was represented by Senator Abdullahi Adamu, Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, noted that the Federal Government is committed to the revival of the economy through the non-oil sector, particularly through agriculture. He said agricultural mechanisation would encourage the youth to participate in crop growing, as it would reduce the stress and drudgery associated with current methods of farming, adding that te...