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NGO Holds Expo On Natural Products
The Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme (BDCP) will hold a workshop and exposition to stimulate the natural products and bio-business industrial sub-sector in Nigeria and the ECOWAS sub-region.
BDCP’s National Coordinator, Prof. Elijah Sokomba, said this in a statement he issued on Wednesday in Abuja.
The BDCP is a non-profit organisation aimed at ensuring the well being of tropical ecosystems and human inhabitants through practical and innovative mechanism of sustainable development.
Sokomba said the organisation would hold the three-day initiative in collaboration with the International Centre for the Ethnomedicine and Drug Development as well as the Natural Medicine Development Agency.
He said the forum would also address technical problems faced by natural products entrepreneurs in Nigeria and the ECOWAS sub-region as well as find ways of “ keying into the herbal renaissance blooming across the world. ’’
“This is with a view to enhance our capacity for delivery of new health products to the international markets, especially the EU and the U.S. under Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), and diversify the export base of the local economy,’’ he added.
He said the programme tagged, “HerbFEST 2011,’’ would enable producers, researchers and government appreciate the need for protection of products in high demand through the use of sustainable agro-techniques as well as tap opportunities available in alternative plants and products.
Sokomba further said the programme would involve panel discussions to enhance technical capacity, provide and elicit policy support as well as regulation and standardisation of natural products in the region.
He said more than 100 small and medium enterprises involved the manufacture of natural products would be exhibiting their products to buyers, retailers, wholesalers, distributors and investors.
The forum, which has “Bio-business Development and Investment for Herbal, Food and Natural products ’’ as theme, would take place between October 11 and October 13 at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Lagos.
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