FG trains Kano tomato, cowpea stakeholders

The workshop was conducted in Kano on Wednesday by the Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute and the Nigerian Export Promotion Council .The workshop included sensitisation on value addition, packaging and export of tomatoes, sesame seeds, and cowpea for farmers, aggregators and exporters to drive the gross domestic products and foreign exchange revenue to the country while emphasizing standards and international requirements.

The zonal training was in collaboration with Synergy Impact Consultants Ltd, and with the support of the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Services , the Federal Produce Inspectorate Service and the Federation of Agricultural Commodities Association of Nigeria, was done at the zonal office of NSPRI in Kano, Lagos, recently.

“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.

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