§ Sir R. Glynasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what price is now fixed by the Nigerian Marketing Board to pay the growers of groundnuts for their crop; and what restrictions are put on Nigerian farmers selling their crop at more than £21 4s. per ton to any foreign agent.
§ Mr. J. GriffithsThe prices fixed by the Nigerian Marketing Board for payment to growers of groundnuts during the 1950–51 season vary according to locality and the cost of transporting the produce from the outlying to the central buying stations. In the Rivers Area prices range from £18 to £20 a ton and in the Kano Area from £16 4s. 0d. to £21 4s. 0d. a ton naked ex-scale. Under Nigerian Ordinance No. 11 of 1949 no groundnuts may be exported except on the written authority of the Nigerian Groundnuts Marketing Board.