Lingzhi Global Services, a knowledge based Coffee, Tea and Chocolate Company has urged the people of Taraba State, Northeast Nigeria to gear up towards utilizing the various natural resources that abound across the state.
Blessing Nanman Tantur
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Lingzhi Global, Blessing Nanman Tantur who said chocolate and coffee are some of the natural resources deposited across the State, spoke while fielding questions from Journalists in Jalingo the state capital.
Tantur told Reporters that Lingzhi Global is into the business of chocolate, coffee and tea, noting that the business has spread across about 15 countries of the world and 16 African countries.
“We are already in 16 African countries and right now in Nigeria, we have 21 states running Coffee Training Centre”,
“The purpose of establishing the centre is to help utilize the abundant natural resources that are found in chocolate, coffee and others”, she said.
According to her, research and awareness creation had given her the knowledge that coffee is not only found in Africa but also found in Taraba State.
“As far back as 2013, 2014, I didn’t know that coffee is from Africa. I thought it’s a foreign product”,
“Research has given me the knowledge that coffee is our heritage and Taraba is the home of coffee”
Tantur, expressing concern that Taraba State is not utilizing its natural resources, called on the people of the State to gear towards changing their mindset saying,
the benefits of Coffee to life is enormous.
Blessing Nanman Tantur
“It’s a wake up call, farmers need to be educated, Processors need to be educated, Marketers and consumers need to be educated, too, even the government officials need to know all about coffee too, Taraba is not really utilizing what they have”, she said.
She however, assured the people of the State that Lingzhi is in the State to impact the knowledge already gathered into their lives hence the awareness programme.
“Lingzhi will continue to showcase the State’s natural resources to the entire world”, she added.
The Coffee, Tea and chocolate is unique because it is infused with Ganoderma Lucidium, a rare specie of Mushroom found in China and which she got the patent right.
Moreso it is the first African Coffee, Tea and chocolate Industry in Africa.
