Nigeria Floods to Further Cut Cocoa Crop, Adding to Shortage
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Nigeria’s cocoa planting and mid-crop harvest will be disrupted as the Hydrological Service Agency has warned of heavy flooding in the country’s main cocoa growing areas.
The flood prone states include Ondo, Cross River, Osun, Oyo, Ogun, Taraba and Delta, Joseph Utsev, the minister of Water Resources and Sanitation said in Abuja on Wednesday. The areas account for 94% of the nation’s output of the chocolate ingredient.