Nigeria: Stakeholders' Strategies for Re-Awakening Nigeria's Cocoa Economy

17 December 2018

Head, Agro-Economy Desk, FEMI IBIROGBA writes on the efforts of stakeholders in the cocoa value chain development to make the crop the mainstay of the economy; climate change management through agro-forestry and yardsticks for certification to meet international standards, among other industry issues.

With the realities that there are structural bottlenecks in Nigeria causing inadequate growth of the economy; high imports of all categories of goods; low exports of non-oil goods and increased unemployment and high level of poverty, stakeholders in the cocoa sector have proactively moved to infuse game-changing activities in the production and value chain development of the economic crop to become, once again, the hotbed of the economy.

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