NEPC charges Nigerian exporters to prioritize quality

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has called connected exporters to conscionable marketplace demands by prioritizing merchandise quality, arsenic portion of efforts to boost the nation’s non-oil export sector.

Executive Director and Chief Executive serviceman NEPC made the telephone portion presenting a insubstantial titled, ‘Overview of Exportable products and markets’, organised by Nigerian Export Import Bank (NEXIM) held astatine Gumel, Jigawa State.

Represented by Yusuf Ismail Ahmad, NEPC said the large occupation that hindered the exportation of goods from Nigeria is inability to supply the marketplace with what it demanded for.

He said Nigeria has a reservoir of untapped mineral assets with astir 44 exploitable minerals successful commercialized quality.

According to him, “Some of the large challenges successful exportation successful Nigeria including, mediocre proscription and logistics, compliance to International standards, higher involvement rates, deficiency of inactive inducement scheme.

“Others are deficiency of synergy among stakeholders successful the Non-oil export financing worth chain, mediocre knowing of Non-oil and lipid export processes by commercialized banks arsenic good arsenic deficiency of consciousness of the assorted Non-oil and export financing strategy and services available.”

He said the Council is collaborating with applicable agencies and parastatals to make awareness, physique capableness for cultivation practices, labelling and packaging and guarantee adherence to prime and modular of exports successful the planetary market.

Ahmad noted that the efforts helped successful the summation successful exportation by 6.26 percent against the figures recorded successful 2023.

The Managing Director Nigerian -Export Import Bank, Mr Abba Bello said the purpose of the programme is to make consciousness among Jigawa residents connected the opportunities and potentialities disposable for exporting non-oil goods to different countries.

He noted that it’s unfortunate that, contempt the cultivation potentials successful the state, Jigawa is inactive counted among the large poorness stricken states successful Nigeria.

He urged Jigawa citizens to instrumentality vantage of antithetic facilities successful NEXIM slope to commence exporting cultivation products specified arsenic sesame effect and hibiscus that are mostly produced successful the state.