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Title: | Optimal patterns for the evacuation of cocoa in nigeria |
Author: | Onakala, P.C. |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | The Nigerian Geographical Journal |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 3-26 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | transport cocoa |
Abstract: | The pattern of evacuating cocoa, one of Nigeria's major export crops, is examined in order to identify the inefficiencies in the shipping pattern and to obtain a quantitative impression of what the excess or insufficient demand for this commodity at the ports is costing the Cocoa Board in terms of inland shipping costs. The results of the analysis indicate that the Cocoa Marketing Board would make considerable savings in its shipping bills by reallocating the demand for cocoa at the ports, and by employing the road transport freight rates of the commercial carriers instead of paying the licenced buying agents to transport cocoa to demand points. The models obtained from the adjusted port demand suggest that demand capacity be reduced at Lagos and Port Harcourt and increased at Sapele and Calabar ports. It is also suggested that the Cocoa Marketing Board seriously consider developing another method of collection, which would obviate its current dependence on the licenced buying agents for 'bush collections', i.e. the purchasing of cocoa from producers who are unable to take their product to the grading stations. Bibliogr. |