Beginning in the 1950s and till the mid-1960s, Nigeria remained the largest producer of crude oil palm the world over. It had a market share of 43.0%, supplying 645,000 MT of palm oil, on annual basis, across the globe. The civil war which began in 1967 and lasted till 1970 changed all of that. The
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