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“I’m 81 years old and I’ve never seen this before. Cocoa farming is all I have to do nothing else. I sell my cocoa, and after 4 months, I still haven’t been paid. What do you want an old woman like me to do?” — 81 year old Cocoa Farmer #JoyDigital || #JoyNewsFocus | JoyNews

NIGERIAN COCOA TRADE (1948) . . . Cocoa was one of the main sources of income in Nigeria prior to Independence, but that changed following the exportation of crude oil in commercial quantities in the 1970s. Prior to the rise of crude oil, the agriculture sector was the dominant contributor to domestic output, employment, and foreign exchange earnings. . Nigeria was the second largest cocoa producer in the world (but following investments in the oil sector in the 1970s and 1980s), Nigeria's share