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The training was on good
planting, pre-harvest management of crops according to international standards
and good post-harvest handling practices to retain nutritional quality, facial
value and wholesomeness of such foods and to avoid contamination as well as
food loss. The zonal training was in collaboration with Synergy Impact Consultants Limited, and with the support of the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Services
(NAQS), the Federal Produce
Inspectorate Service (FPIS) and the Federation
of Agricultural Commodities Association of Nigeria, was done at the zonal
office of NSPRI in Kano, Lagos, recently. The objectives were bridging the
knowledge gap in exporting tomatoes, sesame seeds, and cowpea in Nigeria;
building an innovation platform for effective engagement among stakeholders;
developing appropriate research themes to improve production and post-harvest
handling of the crops for exports and harnessing useful information from
stakeholders for the development of a policy brief that would assist the
government in making policies.
Executive Director of NSPRI, Dr. Patricia Pessu, said the institute
was established for the quest for pest-free and safe agricultural commodity
being exported from the west coast of Africa to Europe, and the institute had
since continued to work assiduously to maintain the quality of export crops and
crops consumed locally through basic and applied research with the active
engagement of stakeholders. “Although a lot has changed
since the creation of NSPRI, our responsibility to ensure that agricultural
commodity being exported from Nigeria is of the acceptable standard has not in
any way reduced. The current economic downturn in the country necessitates
diversification of the economy and the need to take proactive steps in
positioning agriculture as a source of foreign earning,” she said.
Director of Research Operations
at NSPRI, Dr. Folorunsho Olayemi,
said it was to equip stakeholders with knowledge and requirements for exports,
which, in turn, would help galvanise the economy and create jobs. “This training is held to help our farmers to access the
international markets through farm produce. Nigeria has been doing exports of
food and crops, but we have not been doing it right lately. Everywhere, our
products are being rejected,” Olayemi said.
Deputy Director, Product
Development, NEPC, Mr. Moruff Salami,
representing the Director-General of NEPC, Mr.
Segun Awolowo, said the country is blessed with agricultural resources, and
these resources should be used to diversify the economy through product
development, packaging and exports. (Guardian)
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