cocoa in the West and palm oil in the East. The groundnut pyramids of the 1970’s in Kano testified to this fact. This achievement could not be sustained. This was due to the discovery of crude oil in the early1970’s. This subsequently became the major foreign earner for the country leading to the neglect of the agricultural sector. Groundnut output declined from 7680 thousand tones in 1965 to 7338 thousand tones in 1995 (Ngbede et al; 2009). Its contribution to GDP in 1996
