Comfort Literacy Intervention and Capacity Enhancement (CLICE) Foundation will be facilitating access Technology Adoption Grant (TAG) for Market Development Programme in the Niger Delta (MADE) for the purpose of securing Small Scale Processing Equipment (SSPE) for palm oil processing. The grant is about 50% counterpart funding in respect of commercial oil processing, milling and equipment intervention for prospective millers and investors in Cross River and Akwa-Ibom States, NegroidHaven has garnered. CLICE is therefore calling for applications from interested millers and investors to access the the fund.
CLICE representative has observed that they ‘will be receiving a technology (oil processing/milling equipment) adoption grant of more than 50% for commercial oil palm processors and investors in oil processing in Cross River State as an intervention fund for prospective millers or investors in Cross River State and Akwa-Ibom State’.
The technology adoption grant is a DFID-funded project aimed at maintaining the drive towards sustainable livelihood for our people. It’s an intervention fund for an improved oil processing available for existing oil millers and investors at commercial scale not subsistence.
According to CLICE, the cost of the equipment is between N700,000 and N750,000. The information stresses that beneficiaries are expected to pay up the instalment of #400,000 to the fabricator while we pay up the balance in two forms, namely,
N350,000 to the fabricator and N100,000 to beneficiaries to cover for the cost of organising demonstration to a cluster of 150 persons after the installation of the equipment.
MADE’s intervention in the Palm Oil value chain seeks to contribute to an increased in productivity of smallholders by
—promoting the adoption of best practices;
—Improving oil palm harvesting and processing efficiency.