Reviving Nigeria’s coffee production

Recently, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) projected that Nigeria’s coffee production would decline from 40,800 bags to 39,900 bags annually by 2028 if the current cultivation and market trends persist. This projection does not bode well for the development of the non-oil sector, which the present administration is pursuing with vigour. It will also affect the government’s plan to earn $200billion in foreign exchange from the non-oil sector.
Consequently, members of Cocoa and Coffee Farmers’ Association (COCEFAA) have identified the absence of a national coffee framework, market access gap, quality gap and others as some of the structural gaps hindering coffee production. Th...