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Cocoa: Nigeria's cash crop
Nigeria grows the world's fourth-largest cocoa crop, and most of its cocoa farmers live in the South-West. How the crop is made, sold and priced.
Read the postHow palm oil is made, and what it is used for
Palm oil and palm kernel oil are two different products from the same fruit. The four stages that turn fresh fruit bunches into both, and where the oils go beyond the kitchen.
Read the postThe machines we are working to place in our chapters
A groundnut oil press, a palm oil line, and a palm kernel cracker and press: the three machines the cooperative is working to place in its chapters, what each one makes, and why the value should stay with the woman who processes.
Read the postWhat WIAB is, and why our president built it
Women in Agribusiness Farmers is a community of women across the six South-West states, organised through registered cooperative societies. It was founded on one conviction: that women in agriculture should be owners and decision-makers, not only farmers and traders.
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