Facilitating Smallholder Farmers’ Market Access
In the OIC Member Countries
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TABLE 7: NIGERIA’S TOP IMPORTS AND EXPORTS BY VALUE (2005 US$ THOUSANDS)
Imports
Average
(1989–91)
Average
(2009–11) Exports
Average
(1989–91)
Avera
ge
(2009
–11)
Food prep nes 33,300 220,584 Cocoa, beans 185,271 617,245
Food preparations, flour,
malt extract n/a 224,749 Rubber, natural dry 49,363 127,228
Wheat 31,663 1,148,904 Sesame seed 1,399 107,811
Oil, palm n/a 978,667 Cocoa, butter 12,650 50,611
Sugar, raw centrifugal 7,591 428,467 Cigarettes n/a 29,336
Milk, whole dried 19,052 289,418 Cotton lint 2,721 25,958
Sugar, refined 125,506 197,391
Cocoa, powder and
cake 1,078 22,272
Tomatoes, paste 67 140,731 Rubber, natural 18,664 18,030
Milk, skimmed dried 34,044 94,372 Bran, wheat n/a 16,902
Tobacco, unmanufactured 8,606 63,941
Vegetables, fresh or
dried nes 41* 10,453
Tallow 13,454 55,452 Ginger 1,006 10,261
Meat, chicken 119* 51,260 Oil, palm 27 9,971
Cake, palm kernel 10,032 8,761
Source: Authors’ calculations, based on FAOSTAT (FAO 2014) and World Development Indicators (World Bank
2014h).
Note: * denotes that data were not available for all years.
FIGURE 16: TOP SOURCES OF FARM REVENUE IN NIGERIA, 1990–92 AND 2010–12
Source: FAOSTAT (FAO 2014).