The Federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry has said that Nigeria realised about $378 million (about N56.7 billion) from export of agricultural produce in 2009.

The report was contained in the ministry’s export statistics made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos. The statistics showed that the export was 15 per cent higher than $341.8 million (about N51.2 billion) recorded in 2008.

The report noted that the nation’s total exported commodities increased from 271 million tonnes recorded in 2008 to 282.4 million tonnes in 2009. The report listed some of the produce exported during the period under review to include cocoa beans, cocoa butter, cocoa cake, ginger, sesame seeds and cashew nuts.

Others were sheanuts, cotton lint, palm kernel cake, shea butter, cashew kernel, rubber, chilies, hibiscus flower, among others.

Source: ngrguardiannews.com