The Nigerian Commodity Exchange (NCX) was established to provide a practical solution to a number of challenges that have adversely affected the growth and development of the Nigerian agricultural sector, especially the heavy post-harvest losses associated with poor warehousing and the absence of a ready market for the disposal of farm produce at realistic prices.
The NCX is an end-to-end integrated system of decentralized trading, warehousing, quality certification of commodities, clearing, settlement, delivery and market information. It enables agro-commodity merchants, exporters and industrial end users to have access to reduced transaction costs in terms of cost of logistics and aggregation of commodities...............................................Full Article: Source
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