ABSTRACT
Nearly all the cocoa exported from Nigeria is produced by the Yoruba. It is grown on the heavier and more fertile soils, mainly in the Ibadan and Ife-Ilesha Divisions of Oyo Province, in Ijebu-Ode and Abeokuta Province and in parts of the Colony. Production is most highly concentrated in Ibadan and nearly 60% of the total amount of cocoa is grown in Oyo Province, a quarter of the farmers there being dependent on cocoa and growing practic ally no food crops once their cocoa-trees are bearing.
