The Minister
of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh,
who was reacting to the 2016 European Union (EU) ban on Nigeria’s beans export,
said relevant measures were being put in place to lift the ban and stop the
export of low quality produce. The minister, who also commended the committee,
appealed to members to ensure that the country met international standard of
agriculture products.
According
to Chief Ogbe, farmers must be educated to ensure quality produce not only for
export but for local consumption too. He added: “The
world is in competition, driven by trade, buying and selling. Woe unto that
country that only buys. This assignment is more serious than just targeting
export. It is about our survival and living well.
“Most of the beans we export are consumed by Africans, so, if we
don’t sell the right kind of beans, we run the danger of hurting everybody,
particularly our own people. The quality of our products must be right. We
can’t keep apologising.
“By the time we do the first test export and everything goes well,
we must stand by the oath we have taken and never again ship sub-standard
produce to world market.”
In his
response, the head, Trade and Economics Section of the European Union
delegation, Mr. Filippo Amato,
hailed the federal government for tackling the issue of quality and safety of
agriculture commodities. Amato said the EU, through the National Quality
Infrastructure Programmme (NQIP) implemented by UNIDO, supported quality
control plan in the country to enable the country to meet standard.
He
added that the EU delegation was already consulting with Nigerian stakeholders
on new competitiveness support programme that would focus on tomato, pepper and
ginger value chain. He noted that the programme would be launched in 2018.
On the
UNIDO-NQIP Integrated Export Control Plan, Dr.
Shaukat Malik, the Chief Technical Adviser of UNIDO, said Nigerian
authorities were expected to submit detailed action plan to the EU to avoid
further rejections.
The
inter-ministerial committee was inaugurated in 2016 as part of EU requirements
to lift the ban on exportation of Nigeria’s dried beans. The committee was also
to facilitate the consumption of local produce and stop rejection of
agricultural produce at the international market. (Leadership)
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