The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC)
has partnered the United Nations Industrial
Development Organisation (UNIDO) to end the high level of rejection of
Nigerian produce in the global market. http://www.tectono-business.com/2016/02/contemporary-step-by-step-guide-to.html
The
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, NEPC, Olusegun Awolowo, explained that the partnership had become
imperative to address European Union’s suspension on the export of Nigerian
dried beans due to high level of pesticide residue which he said was far above
the Maximum Residual Level (MRL).
Awolowo
at the sensitisation workshop on implementation of the Export Control Plan on
Dried Beans Export, said the move was part of additional effort by the council
to reduce the incidence of rejection of agricultural exports to European Union
and parts of the world.
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According
to him, Nigeria’s agricultural produce exports have been encountering
challenges of reject in the international markets primarily due to
non-adherence to sanitary and phytosanitary measures; non-compliance to
administrative procedures, non-compliance to documentation; technical barrier
issues such as poor packaging, labelling, insufficient information on
nutritional content and prevalence of informal exports.
He
noted that the council had taken proactive steps to address and stem the rising
tide of rejection of Nigerian agricultural produce, by setting up a 21-member
Inter-Agency Committee on non-oil exports in 2016. http://www.tectono-business.com/2016/02/contemporary-step-by-step-guide-to.html
He stated that UNIDO under the National Quality Infrastructure Project (NQIP)
had so far been partnering the council on series of activities to address the
ban.
Stating
some of the initiatives, the NEPC boss said include the development of the
concept of Conduits of Excellence (CoE), the Standard Operating Procedures
(SOPs) and Integrated Export Control Plan for dried and processed beans
products. He said these programmes are expected to improve the quality, safety,
integrity, standards and marketability of Nigerian agricultural commodities for
regional and international markets.
In his
words, ‘‘This sensitisation workshop for beans value
chain operators is to address outstanding issues relating to EU requirement for
lifting the beans ban and also to enlighten the participants on the formal
process for exporting dried and processed beans as well as the adherence to the
implementation of the EU food safety requirements and serves as a preparatory
avenue for the trial shipment of dried beans to the EU from Nigeria.’’
Earlier,
a Quality and Business Excellence Expert with UNIDO, Simeon Umukoro, said both
organisations have working relentlessly in lifting the ban on the nation’s dry
beans since 2016, stressing that the partnership has also developed an
Integrated Export document which he said is at its third tier to certify
Nigerian farms.‘‘Once all these efforts are in place, we believe the dry beans
ban will be raised to help expand the export threshold of Nigeria,’’ he added.
(Guardian)
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