In the food, beverage and tobacco industry, there was a decline in production amount from N3,278 billion in 1981 to N2,900 billion in 2018. Another sub-sector – the textile, apparel and footwear manufacturing also declined from N1,746 billion worth of product in 1981 to N344 billion in 2010. Renewed efforts to revive the industry but raised its levels of output to N1,443 billion by 2018. All the same, this latest improvement in production by 2018 is still less than the level of production in 1981.
| Year/
Sub-sector |
Food, Beverage and Tobacco | Textile, Apparel and Footwear | Wood and Wood Products | Pulp, Paper and Paper Products | Sum of Agro-allied Industry |
| 1981 | 3,278,235.86 | 1,746,096.23 | 53,315.21 | 22,673.29 | 5,100,320.60 |
| 1982 | 3,042,925.81 | 674,266.04 | 50,311.12 | 24,171.33 | 3,791,674.30 |
| 1983 | 2,096,317.31 | 722,403.16 | 54,749.58 | 21,933.68 | 2,895,403.73 |
| 1984 | 2,139,263.63 | 624,224.21 | 59,579.60 | 19,903.18 | 2,842,970.62 |
| 1985 | 2,114,211.61 | 532,798.30 | 53,641.16 | 22,322.46 | 2,722,973.53 |
| 1986 | 2,009,529.95 | 363,279.44 | 48,294.61 | 25,035.81 | 2,446,139.81 |
| 1987 | 2,376,363.12 | 661,798.87 | 53,333.78 | 22,387.54 | 3,113,883.31 |
| 1988 | 2,965,980.32 | 612,276.50 | 58,898.74 | 20,019.41 | 3,657,174.98 |
| 1989 | 2,405,888.71 | 460,592.62 | 55,458.83 | 21,366.12 | 2,943,306.28 |
| 1990 | 2,684,145.09 | 519,465.36 | 52,219.82 | 22,803.41 | 3,278,633.68 |
| 1991 | 2,752,143.43 | 762,748.30 | 49,169.98 | 24,337.39 | 3,588,399.11 |
| 1992 | 3,220,079.39 | 795,474.62 | 50,921.52 | 23,411.39 | 4,089,886.91 |
| 1993 | 2,560,674.41 | 630,457.79 | 52,735.45 | 22,520.61 | 3,266,388.27 |
| 1994 | 2,251,997.73 | 484,488.03 | 54,614.00 | 21,663.73 | 2,812,763.48 |
| 1995 | 1,893,217.00 | 385,096.99 | 53,658.14 | 22,083.94 | 2,354,056.07 |
| 1996 | 1,928,110.89 | 440,333.47 | 52,719.01 | 22,512.30 | 2,443,675.67 |
| 1997 | 1,988,951.51 | 433,060.96 | 51,796.32 | 22,948.97 | 2,496,757.76 |
| 1998 | 2,029,213.68 | 392,888.97 | 50,889.78 | 23,394.11 | 2,496,386.54 |
| 1999 | 2,098,106.74 | 388,386.93 | 49,999.10 | 23,847.89 | 2,560,340.67 |
| 2000 | 2,102,580.32 | 391,157.42 | 50,665.68 | 23,617.67 | 2,568,021.08 |
| 2001 | 2,079,317.73 | 383,538.59 | 51,341.14 | 23,389.67 | 2,537,587.13 |
| 2002 | 2,630,462.18 | 378,690.25 | 51,907.54 | 23,065.67 | 3,084,125.64 |
| 2003 | 2,183,104.67 | 390,811.11 | 87,673.09 | 23,049.66 | 2,684,638.53 |
| 2004 | 2,133,000.63 | 384,577.52 | 90,018.26 | 22,883.46 | 2,630,479.87 |
| 2005 | 2,158,947.36 | 387,694.31 | 94,478.74 | 23,933.20 | 2,665,053.61 |
| 2006 | 2,169,683.94 | 361,547.89 | 99,380.50 | 23,623.03 | 2,654,235.37 |
| 2007 | 2,111,527.47 | 385,443.30 | 104,371.88 | 23,608.16 | 2,624,950.81 |
| 2008 | 2,165,210.37 | 374,015.06 | 115,254.91 | 23,425.66 | 2,677,905.99 |
| 2009 | 2,268,102.60 | 344,059.22 | 121,363.68 | 23,510.42 | 2,757,035.92 |
| 2010 | 2,298,522.91 | 352,543.82 | 123,384.10 | 24,355.21 | 2,798,806.04 |
| 2011 | 2,466,513.33 | 571,846.10 | 130,265.97 | 28,516.20 | 3,197,141.61 |
| 2012 | 2,628,306.89 | 815,285.85 | 157,343.70 | 30,348.04 | 3,631,284.48 |
| 2013 | 2,938,606.11 | 1,096,388.66 | 171,312.06 | 44,017.16 | 4,250,323.99 |
| 2014 | 3,104,004.91 | 1,438,342.87 | 193,065.36 | 50,243.71 | 4,785,656.85 |
| 2015 | 2,937,062.39 | 1,423,019.65 | 205,212.33 | 53,671.22 | 4,618,965.59 |
| 2016 | 2,752,898.95 | 1,407,504.32 | 196,929.27 | 51,431.11 | 4,408,763.66 |
| 2017 | 2,817,563.62 | 1,419,074.45 | 197,977.82 | 51,490.58 | 4,486,106.48 |
| 2018 | 2,900,145.02 | 1,443,029.85 | 201,348.53 | 53,259.90 | 4,597,783.31 |
Unlike the two former categories, wood and wood products increased from N22,673 in 1981 to N201,349 in 2018. Likewise, the value of pulp, paper and paper products rose from N22,673 billion in 1981 to N53,360 billion.