Economy of Nigeria of 5%. By 2012, expenditures stood at $31.61 billion, while revenues was $54.48 billion. Nigeria ranks sixth worldwide and first in Africa in farm output. The sector accounts for about 18% of GDP and almost one-third of employment. Nigeria has 19 million head of cattle, the largest in Africa. Though Nigeria is no longer a major exporter, due to local consumer boom, it is still a major producer of many agricultural products, including: cocoa, groundnuts (peanuts), rubber, and palm oil. Cocoa production, mostly from obsolete varieties and overage trees has increased from around 180,000 tons annually to 350,000 tons. Major
Mission Foods Mission Foods Mission Foods, a subsidiary of Gruma Corporation, is an American manufacturer of tortillas and tortilla-related products based in Irving, Texas. Mission Foods was founded as a subsidiary of Grupo Maseca (now Gruma) in California in 1977 as a brand name to sell the company's tortillas in the American marketplace. A tortilla manufacturing plant was opened in Dallas in 1982. It is now one of the world's largest producers of flatbread, tortilla and corn flour products with factories in North and Central America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Mission Foods launched the Mission brand in Australia in 2009 with a