NEPC To Train 600 Farmers

The Nigerian Export
Promotion Council (NEPC),  said that it would train no fewer than 600 farmers in quality shear butter.
The Director-General of the Council, Mr Olusegun Awolowo, made the disclosure in an interview  with The Tide  in Lagos, recently.
Awolowo said the training would increase the value of shear butter in the export market.
According to him, the major challenge remained the quality of exported products but promised that plans were being concluded to put an end to such ugly trend.
“What we are doing is that we are trying to increase the quality of our exported products and we have seen that some of our products are even on the shelves in the UK, USA and other European countries.
“Talking about the European Partnership Agreement  for instance, we will be able to benefit from it if we take our industrialization seriously, we can also expert quality products,” he said.
He hinted that the agency was preparing to also train not less than 600 women farmers in quality shear butter production from Shaki area of Oyo State.
The NEPC boss said the training would serve as one of the ways by which the council would add value to local products by exporting finished products and not just in their crude form.
Awolowo also said that the private sector was a major stakeholder in the industrialization of the country  as they could do better in terms of investment.
He said that trainings would begin for sesame seeds and moringa oil production soon.
It could be recalled that the NEPC DG had in November 2014 said that the nation could rake in $1.6 trillion from non-oil exports within the next five years.