Cocoa · 나이지리아

The cocoa or cacao is the seed of Theobroma cacao that is dried and fully fermented. Nigeria cocoa beans are used in the production of chocolate, cocoa butter for the cosmetic industry and cocoa powder to get used as a beverage. Nigeria’s cocoa is its leading agricultural export, and this puts the country in fourth place globally in terms of production. As of 2010, cocoa production summed up to 0.3% of the country’s GDP and its average production between the years 2000 to 2019 was 389,272 each year.