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How Nigeria spends big on honey imports yet has few hands in lucrative sector The Ministry of Agriculture says Nigeria spends over $2bn annually on the importation of honey. 3 min read Ogundele Olubukola, a principal laboratory scientist at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), has been selling honey in the last 10 years, harvesting an average of 150 litres of pure bee honey monthly with just 85 hives. With an average litre of the product going for N1,200, amidst high demand as more people appear to be moving away from sugar consumption, honey seems like the business that could cut down Nigeria’s high unemployment numbers. ....