Nigerian
British Chamber of Commerce, NBCC, has blamed the bad image of Nigerian Cocoa
in the world market, on activities of the get rich quick exporters.
Speaking
at the launch of the Ondo Kingdom Chamber of Commerce, OKCC, the President of
NBCC, Prince Yemi Adefulu, said, when the Marketing Boards were scrapped,
standardisation and quality control was thrown out of the window, the reputation
of the Nigerian Cocoa suffered from the activities of the get rich quick
exporters and the country has not recovered from the reputation damage arising
from this misdemeanor.
”Nigeria
earned a reputation for poor quality from which we suffer to this day. Prices
of Nigerian cocoa crashed and farmers became discouraged and lost the incentive
to plant new cocoa seedlings or expand existing plantations.
In
consequence, many abandoned the
