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Topic Content:
- Topic: Oil Palm Industry
- Text: New Oxford Secondary English Course for SSS2 page 22
- Passage Questions & Answers
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
About thirty years ago, Nigeria was a large exporter of palm oil and had been for many years before then.
You have probably read about the oil rivers of the last century. Well, they were not-so called because there were oil rigs dotted around them as now, but because of the export of palm oil from the region.
Palm oil is also very important to us at home as we use it a great deal in our cooking. Some of you may like groundnut oil soup better, but it is not as good for you as palm oil. Palm oil is rich in vitamins A and D and helps to protect us from diseases. So isn’t it a pity that today we have become importers of palm oil instead of exporters?
There are many reasons for this. First, the civil war destroyed many oil farms in the areas where it was the main livelihood of
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The petroleum boom in the country also have a serious consequences on the oil farms
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State in three sentences, one sentence for each, three reasons the writer gives for the decline of oil palm undustry
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