After decades of neglect of cocoa production, the Federal Government has made moves to reverse the situation and has announced plans to double production to 500,000 tonnes in the next few years.
Nigeria was the first African country to liberalise the cocoa trade in 1986, which led to a sharp drop
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JOSEPHINE OKOJIE
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