Benue will begin the processing, marketing and packaging of yam for export in June this year, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) said in Makurdi on Thursday.
Emmanuel Etim, Head of NEPC Export Assistance Office in Benue, disclosed this during a two-day stakeholders training and awareness for Nigerian Yam Export Programme.
The theme of the forum is “Developing Nigerian Yam for Export.”
He said that the Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Chief Audu Ogbeh, would inaugurate the first batch of packaged Nigerian yam for export at Lagos port on June 26.
Etim said the programme was aimed at placing Nigeria as a key player in global market through strategic yam export development programmes.
According to him, the programme is also committed to creating adequate export awareness of the potentials of Nigerian yam.
Etim said the NEPC would transform Nigeria’s…
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