At a press conference at the weekend, to announce its Agrofood and Plastprintpack exhibition, scheduled for Tuesday, October 26 to Thursday, October 28, 2021, at the Landmark Centre, Victoria Island Annex, Lagos, the organisers said the conference would reduce the country’s reliance on imported food.
Fairtrade Managing Director, Paul März, said the conference is tailored towards addressing the lacuna in Nigeria’s agricultural system where many expectations are placed on outside countries to achieve food sufficiency. The President of OTTACCWA, Alexander Isong, said the partnership with Fairtrade was a synergy of purpose because packaging an agrofood without preservation, transportation and storage wont work, especially in an environment like Nigeria where there are problems with post-harvest losses.
He decried low involvement of Nigeria in the cold chain industry, adding that cold chain is an integral part of any economy.
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