The Executive Director, Dr. Patrick Adebola, welcomed the Partnership Initiatives in the Niger-Delta (PIND) Team to the Institute on Tuesday, 20 April, 2021. PIND is a Nigerian Non-profit Organization working with partners to build peace and equitable economic development in the Niger-Delta. Their mission was to partner with CRIN for the production of hybrid cocoa seedlings for farmers in the Niger-Delta States. Cocoa is one of the crops being promoted and funded by Chevron.
The Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN) was established in Ibadan, Oyo State on 1st December, 1964 as a successor autonomous rese arch organisation to the Nigerian Substation of the defunct West African Cocoa Research Institute (WACRI)