Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: (CNN) With the value of oil and the Naira currency in decline, Nigeria is turning to old-fashioned pencils to provide relief. The Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, recently announced that the first pencil plant in West Africa would start production in 2018. "We have all the things to produce a pencil, which is used by a large number of people from our young pupils to engineers," Onu told Nigerian newspaper The Daily Trust. "The private sector will come in to do the production and we will see the benefits. When production of pencils begins, Nigerians will be amazed at the multiplier effects. It will create a minimum of 400,000 jobs."Nigeria plans to open the first pencil plant in West Africa in 2018Government officials believe this will create at least 400,000 jobsPencils are seen as a way to kickstart a manufacturing industry 
 Question:The Minister explained that pencils use raw materials that _ possesses in abundance, such as wood, graphite, and rubber.

Nigeria