Article(s) about Consumption

Report Highlights: Sugar production is expected to remain relatively flat at 70,000 tons, which signals limited progress of Nigeria’s backward integration plans for sugar production. Raw sugar imports are estimated to decline marginally by three percent, largely due to limited availability [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria’s sugar refining capacity, estimated at 2.1 million tons, exceeds the country’s current total demand of 1.45 million tons. The country’s sugar refineries depend almost exclusively on brown sugar from Brazil at five percent duty. This situation has [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria remains a huge export market for wheat with export value of U.S. wheat averaging $1 billion, about 85 percent share of the wheat market. The high demand is mostly pressured by increasing  consumption of wheat flour - based products  and insufficient [Read more]

Report Highlights: Average wine consumption per capita jumped from 0.1 liters to more than 0.4 liters within 2004 and 2010. Still wine (red and white) category led the market accounting for a share of more than 80 percent. Local wine processing is underdeveloped and high-cost. Nigeria's large [Read more]

Report Highlights: Although Nigeria dropped from the number one export destination in the world for U.S. wheat in MY2010/11 to third position this year, it remains the most consistent and loyal customer. Sales as of April1 are a record 3.5 million tons, up from 3.3 million tons last year. [Read more]

Report Highlights: Imported frozen fish (especially mackerel, herring and croaker) accounted for more than 800,000 tons (valued at $900 million) in 2009. Depending on fish availability, imports are expected to exceed one million tons by the end of 2010. The combination of low domestic production, [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria continues to depend almost exclusively on sugar imports despite the completion of the privatization of all government-owned sugar estates. Rehabilitation and expansion of these estates are on going, albeit at a very slow pace and at present, only Savannah Sugar Company [Read more]