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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
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Nigeria
Index
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Cocoa House in Ibadan, the cocoa marketing center
Courtesy Embassy of Nigeria, Washington
Spraying cacao plants; cocoa is a major export
Courtesy Embassy of Nigeria, Washington
As economic development occurs, the relative size of
the
agricultural sector usually decreases. Accordingly,
Nigerian GDP
originating in the agricultural sector shrank from 65.7
percent
in FY 1959 to 30.9 percent by 1976. The overall economic
decline
reversed this trend, and by 1988, 39.1 percent of GDP was
derived
from agricultural activity (see
table 9, Appendix).
The contribution of the agricultural sector increased
3.8
percent yearly between 1983 and 1988, and the percentage
of
export value in agriculture grew from 3 percent in 1983 to
9
percent in 1988, although much of this growth resulted
from the
fall in oil export receipts (see
table 10, Appendix). Food
production also increased rapidly during the 1980s,
especially
after exchange-rate reform restricted food imports in
1986.
Data as of June 1991
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