BEST EXPORT PROMOTION IN AGRICULTURE

The meaning of Export Promotion in Agriculture is a set of activities that are directed at increasing the sales of agricultural products to other countries. These activities include:

1. Identification of products and markets
2. Location of new investment opportunities
3. Provision of trade information
4. Provision of support services, e.g assistance with export procedures, product quality, export financing, transportation, etc
5. Organising trade fairs and trade missions

 Trade fairs are exhibitions organised to bring together producers and buyers in an atmosphere conducive to transacting business

Trade missions consist of a group of persons (government representatives and delegates of the private business sector) who visit a foreign country with the aim of promoting trade.

Export promotions are the responsibility of organisations referred to as the Trade Promotion Organisation (TPO). NEPC, Nigerian Export Promotion Council, is the federal government agency responsible for promoting trade in Nigerian goods. Therefore Nigerian TPO is NEPC. NEPC was established through the promulgation of the Nigerian Export Promotion Act No. 26 of 1976 and inaugurated in March 1977.

The Act was, however, amended in 1979, 1986, 1988 and 1992 to enhance its performance, minimise bureaucracy and increase its autonomy in dealing with members of organised private sectors involved in exportation.

List of some Agricultural Export products exported from Nigeria are: cassava, cashew nut, charcoal, chillies, cocoa, beans, coffee, cotton lint, fish, ginger, groundnut, gum Arabic, horns, kolanut, poultry, rubber, sesame seed, sheanuts, shrimps, skins, snails, tobacco, vegetable oil, wheat pellets, yam, grasscutter.

PROCESSED FOODS, VEGETABLES AND SPICES

They are: ginger, garlic, ukazi, cassava flour, garri, locust beans, yam flour, plantain flour, ground rice, ground melon, and dehydrated vegetables.

HORTICULTURE PRODUCTS

Okro, mangetout (French beans), chillies, mangoes, pineapples, sugar cane, cut-live-flowers.

IMPORTANCE OF EXPORT PROMOTION

1. It provides employment opportunities and means of livelihoods to workers in the production, processing, transportation and export industries
2. It provides foreign exchange for the exporter and the country
3. It increases farmers’ income
4. It encourages bilateral and multilateral trade relationships among nations of the world 

EXPORT PROHIBITIONS

This is aimed at regulating export trade and protecting natural and agricultural resources from exploitation. According to the Nigerian Customs Service, the following produce are prohibited from export;

1. Wet blue and all unfinished leather
2. Unprocessed rubber latex and lumps
3. Wildlife animals classified as endangered species and their products.

See also

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