...Farmgate price down 44% as season commences
Nigeria's 2024/2025 main-crop cocoa output is set to decline due to poor weather and a black pod disease outbreak in a major growing region.
Farmers told BusinessDay that black-pod disease had attacked cocoa farms in Ikom, Cross River State, whi
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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi
Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues.
She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.
