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Between 1999 and 2020, Nigeria produced more maize than it did at independence, data from the United States Department for Agriculture (USDA) says. The country’s maize production figures in the last five years were the highest ever. Production rose from 10.1 million metric tonnes (mmt) in 2014 to 11.6 mmt in 2016, and by 2017, the figure fell to 10.4 mmt, before surging in 2018 to 11.0 mmt, a figure maintained in 2019. It rose to 11.5mmt in 2020. Data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows that soybean production in Nigeria has been rising and falling. It rose from 588,523 tonnes in 2015 to 936,887 tonnes in 2016. In 2017, the figure increased further to 993,955 tonnes, but fell to 650,000 and 630,000 tonnes in 2018 and 2019 respectively.