Dairy imports in Nigeria: Developments and policies

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Network Paper No. 7
March 1986

by

S.G. Nwoko
Department d Agricultural Economics
University d Ibadan
Ibadan Nigeria

The author gratefully acknowledges the detailed comments by Addis Anteneh and Valentin H. von Massow of ILCA's Livestock Economics Unit on earlier drafts of this article.

INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK CENTRE FOR AFRICA (ILCA)
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Table of Contents

Introduction

Background

Constraints on domestic milk production

Policy objectives

Import policy instruments

Effects of policy instruments an dairy products import

Effect of dairy import policies on domestic milk production

The question of comparative advantage

Conclusion

References