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The Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), connected Monday decried the expanding rejection of Nigeria’s exported Agro-products by different nations and its antagonistic effects connected the country’s economy.
The NSC Executive Secretary, Mr Pius Ukeyima, disclosed this successful his keynote code astatine a 1 time stakeholders enlightenment store connected due packaging strategy successful Makurdi.
Ukeyima said that the rejection of the products was sequel to deficiency of due packaging by exporters.
According to him, until the exporters person a alteration of bosom and imbibe due packaging system, successful compliance with planetary standards that occurrence volition beryllium achieved.
“Look astatine Benue, which is affluent successful earthy resources and cultivation imaginable with a assortment of products that person important export potential, but astir of the products spell to discarded owed to ignorance astir due packaging.
“But if the affluent cultivation produce, including yam, cassava, atom and the immense array of livestock are good packaged, past we tin boldly accidental Benue is poised to go a captious subordinate successful Nigeria’s export landscape.
“Therefore, to afloat harness this potential, we indispensable face the challenges that hinder our success, which see packaging.
“Packaging is overmuch much than a means of wrapping products; it is simply a captious constituent successful the export process”, Ukeyima said.
He further explained that effectual packaging of the protects, the integrity of goods and compliance with planetary standards, would heighten marketability for economical development.
The enforcement caput regretted that astir exporters successful Nigeria failed to recognize the tricks of boosting their businesses and the nation’s economy.
“The close packaging tin marque a batch of difference, influencing a buyer’s determination and elevating our products’ entreaty successful overseas markets,” helium said.
He urged participants to comply with planetary standards specified arsenic packaging regulations circumstantial to the people markets since antithetic countries person varied requirements for safety, labelling, and materials utilized for packaging.
“As exporters, you indispensable guarantee that the products you export comply with these regulations to debar costly rejections and delays.
“Again, usage eco-friendly materials for agro products which meets regulatory demands successful galore regions and besides strengthens marque image.
“As exporters, you tin usage prototype and trial packaging that tin assistance successful identifying imaginable issues with durability, aesthetics, and functionality, allowing for refinement earlier export,” helium said.
Also speaking, the Benue Commissioner for Trade and Investment, Mr Manasseh Orpin, said that the authorities had the capableness to provender the full country, if its cultivation resources were harnessed.
Orpin advised exporters to halt cutting corners by bypassing standards, saying that a merchandise would surely beryllium rejected, adjacent if it was good processed but not good packaged.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 2 papers; ‘The relation of authorities agencies successful non-oil exports and due packaging system: an indispensable instrumentality for agro export were presented.
NAN besides reports that participants were drawn from Nigerian Export Council, Nigeria Customs Service, Nigeria Immigration Service and Coalition of Agricultural Mechanization
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