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Nigeria's Palm Wine Skips the Bottle
Palm wine sells briskly across southern Nigeria, yet it still moves by keg and roadside gourd, spoiling within hours. With demand far above supply and …
Nigeria Keeps the Cashew Nut, Dumps the Fruit
Nigeria is a top cashew producer, but it ships the nuts abroad raw and throws away the fruit they hang from. Up to 95% of …
Africa's Pawpaw Leader Lets It Rot
Nigeria is the largest pawpaw producer in Africa, yet much of the fruit spoils before it can be sold. Short shelf life, weak cold chains …
Nigeria's Guava Rarely Reaches a Bottle
Guava packs four times the vitamin C of an orange and grows readily across Nigeria, yet almost none of it is processed into the juices, …
Nigeria's Egusi Falls Short of the Pot
Nigeria is the world's biggest grower of egusi, the melon seed at the heart of the nation's soups, yet it still cannot grow enough. Demand …
Cassava's Next Act: Ethanol and Sweeteners
Nigeria grows more cassava than any country on earth, yet it imports the ethanol, sweeteners and industrial starch it could make from the crop. A …
Soursop's Health Boom Outpaces Its Farms
Soursop, the spiky green fruit prized for its tangy pulp and medicinal reputation, is in rising demand at home and abroad. Yet it is rarely …
Nigeria Squeezes Little From Its Oranges
Nigeria is one of Africa's biggest orange growers, yet it still imports almost all the juice concentrate it drinks. Poor storage means much of the …
Nigeria's Watermelon Rots Before Market
Nigeria grows watermelon in abundance, but studies of its supply chain show most producers and traders lose up to 40% of the crop, some more …
Tamarind Grows Wild, Earns Little
Tamarind, known in Hausa as tsamiya, grows wild across Nigeria and thrives in almost any soil. Yet while India built an industry around it, Nigeria …
Agbalumo Ripens, Then Goes to Waste
Agbalumo, the tangy seasonal fruit Nigerians grow up sucking on street corners, arrives in abundance between December and April and then vanishes. Much of it …
Kano Gains a 400-Tonne Rice Mill
A logistics company has turned miller, commissioning a 400-tonne-a-day rice plant in Kano along with a sack factory, both run on off-grid power. BlackHorse Holdings …
The Sweet Potato Nigeria Barely Processes
Nigeria is Africa's biggest sweet potato grower and the second largest in the world, yet almost all of it is eaten boiled or fried. Little …
Nigeria Leads in Groundnuts, Lags in Value
Nigeria is Africa's largest groundnut producer, growing about 4.3 million tonnes a year, yet it still imports processed groundnut products. Poor storage, aflatoxin contamination and …
Nigeria Plans to Crack Its Own Cashews
Nigeria grows up to 350,000 tonnes of cashews a year but ships more than 85% abroad raw, exporting the jobs and profit with them. A …