NEPC, stakeholders to tackle Nigeria’s low horticulture export rating

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) alongside other stakeholders has mulled strategies to address Nigeria’s low rating in the horticultural export sector despite her comparative and competitive advantages.

According to the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of NEPC, Olusegun Awolowo, the council attaches importance to the development of the non-oil export sector of the Nigerian economy hence the need to hold a stakeholders’ forum as part of its market development programme.

He noted that the forum became necessary after the council’s visit to the Nigerian Aviation Cargo Handling Company (NAHCO) shed and the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) office at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.

He explained that the working visit was to acquaint the council with the workings of the these organisations with a view to assessing how their operations could help facilitate the Council’s efforts at galvanising Nigerian exporters foods towards servicing the growing demands of EU and USA markets for fresh and processed food items from Africa.

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