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New Post has been published on http://www.voiceofarewa.com/2014/08/08/agency-advocates-high-standards-for-vegetable-exports/

Agency Advocates High Standards for Vegetable Exports

  Aside the huge benefits of vegetable as a  vitamin supplement, stakeholders are in agreement that it is  also a huge business platform which can  yield huge profits  and even earn  foreign exchange. RUTH TENE NATSA in this piece examines the export prospects  of vegetables

A balanced diet is incomplete without a healthy consumption of vegetables and this makes vegetables one of the most sought after foods both locally and internationally.

As a business, Nigeria has a huge potential to obtain economic value from the sales and export of vegetables, but how prepared are the Nigerian farmers to meet standards of the export market.

Vegetables that are to be exported must be inspected, screened and certified before they can be accepted as fit for export and this can only be carried out by experts, who in this case are the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service(NAQS)

Coordinating director, NAQS, Dr Mike Nwaneri, said, “For those in the vegetable production business who have subjected themselves to the guidance of the NAQS, they are very happy as we are told they make about $280,000 monthly from the export of leafy vegetables alone.”

The coordinator, who spoke while on a field trip to vegetable farms in Lagos, was positive that the market was yearning for more investors as some exporters had met in his office recently calling for more produce from this country, but he noted that the nation did not do well in foreign markets ,“because we don’t seem to understand very well the processes involved.

Our people sometimes get confused about who to meet, what they need, where to go and how to do things to be able to meet the requirements of export markets.

“Agricultural quarantine focuses on two broad areas: one safe importation to ensure that whatever we import from outside is safe. It also focuses on import-export trade facilitation. When you ask people to submit their materials destined for export, for inspection, screening and certification, they look at it as a means of delaying their business,” but the certificate recognised globally is the phytosanitary certificate issued by the NAQS.”

For Abdullahi Abubakar, the first vegetable exporter certified by NAQS: “Twice every week, I export more than 100,000 cartons of vegetables including green, spinach, waterleaf , bitter leaf, and Ugu (fluted pumpkin) among others “I carry the vegetables to the airport from the farms. My work is to take the vegetable to the airport, give the agent and give my bank account, ” he said.

Speaking on how he was able to preserve his vegetables to meet international and exporting standards, he said, “NAQS taught us how to put manure, fertiliser and even how and when to harvest. Before NAQS came, we were just doing it anyhow, selling to whoever came. They came to us and taught us how to clean the vegetables. Some don’t have customers abroad. So, they don’t see the need to conform to NAQS. I have customers at Dublin, England, and South Africa,” he said.

For NAQS public affairs officer, Nnamdi Okwunuba, “There is huge potential in foreign exchange. The $280,000 is not just what Nigeria should be earning from foreign sales of vegetables. For the international market, you don’t have to bring everybody on board.

“You have to have pest-risk analysis and set up pest-free areas. Everybody should know the standards. The onus is to avoid putting defective products on the tables of Nigerians. We are also concentrating on avoiding what will bring a bad name to Nigeria in the export market.

“The fact that they have sprayed vegetables does not mean they meet the standards, the acceptable level of every kind of chemical product varies with products.”

Meanwhile NAQS scientist, Dr Dayo Folorunso, who operates the LASU gate farm said in their efforts to meet with international standards, farms under their supervisions were sprayed weekly and monitored by the farmers in line with international standards. “Seven days after that, we come here to witness the harvest of the same vegetables.We have farms for green , water leaf, Ugu, fluted pumpkin, and bitter leaf.

These are the major ones we have on weekly basis. After the harvests comes the screening stage where about 500 cartons of vegetable species weighed at 200 metric tons are harvested and bought by exporters twice weekly through accredited exporters.

We have been working with the farmers for about 10 years. In the past,there have been various interceptions, but in the last seven years, we have been able to bring the farmers together so that we can eliminate interception cases which we have been having in European countries,” he said.