Nigeria Nigeria
Table 1.2.6: Agricultural Yields by Major Crops > 1.2 > 1. > menu
(thousands of hectograms per hectare)
Crop |
1980 |
1985 |
1990 |
1993 |
| Cocoa | 3.9 |
3.1 |
3.9 |
3.3 |
| Palm oil | 20.9 |
22.7 |
21.7 |
21.7 |
| Cotton | 1.8 |
1.6 |
6.8 |
7.9 |
| Groundnuts | 8.4 |
7.7 |
11.7 |
12.5 |
| Sorghum | 11.2 |
16.0 |
10.5 |
10.7 |
| Millet | 8.7 |
15.7 |
11.8 |
10.3 |
| Maize | 14.0 |
11.7 |
12.2 |
14.4 |
| Rice | 19.8 |
21.3 |
19.4 |
19.4 |
| Yams | 106.0 |
56.4 |
111.3 |
105.3 |
| Cassava | 95.8 |
112.5 |
116.5 |
105.0 |
[source:World Bank 1995; Vegetation and Land use Changes in Nigeria, 1998]