Question 8
ComprehensionJAMB 1982 Passage II: Nigeria's produce in 1968
In 1968 Nigeria was the world's biggest producer of groundnuts (averaging 712,600 tonnes a year), the second producer of cocoa (203, 600 tonnes) after Ghana, the fourth producer of tin (13,264 tonnes) and the biggest producer of columbite. Oil palm, growing wild and in plantations in the south, supplied half the world's exports of palm kernels (407,200 tonnes) and seventy per cent of the world's export of palm oil (152,700 tonnes). Nigerian forests covered some 310, 800 square kilometres and produced about 1.132 million cubic metres of timber a year, for export as logs, sawn timber or plywood sheets. Rubber was grown by peasant farmers and, increasingly in plantations; and was partially processed in local factories. The ancient livestock industry of the north still supplies the whole country. About a million cattle are slaughtered annually, and the trade is now being modernized and expanded. As a by-product of the northern livestock industry, there is an old and valuable trade in hides and skins. As a matter of fact the type of skin inaccurately called 'Moroccan leather' comes from Nigeria.
Indicate which statement is not supported by the passage.
- A.Columbite and groundnuts were Nigeria's most important exports
- B.In 1968 814,400 tonnes of palm kernels were exported.
- C.Nigeria supplied more than half the world's palm oil
- D.Timber constituted a major export in Nigeria
- E.'Moroccan leather' is incorrectly named.
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: B (In 1968 814,400 tonnes of palm kernels were exported.)
Explanation
The passage gives Nigeria's palm-kernel exports as 407,200 tonnes, not 814,400 tonnes, so statement B contradicts it.