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Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Realsman405(m): 3:38pm On Feb 05, 2018
On February 5, 20182:37 pm

….exports 1, 983 containers to Mexico

By Gabriel Ewepu


ABUJA- THE Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service, NAQS, disclosed at the weekend that the country generated $35 million within nine months in 2017 from hibiscus (zobo) export.

This was made known by the Coordinating Director, NAQS, Dr Vincent Isegbe, at the ‘National Survey of 13 Agricultural Commodities by the Inter-ministerial Committee on Prevention and Control of Mycotoxins in Agricultural Commodities’ meeting held in Abuja.

Isegbe also explained that the essence of the committee was to know the prevalence type of mycotoxins and on which commodities, in order to help guide policy makers decide on what to do next and also open the country’s economy to opportunities in research, development, public health disease prevention and the general wellbeing of the nation.

According to him, hibiscus popularly called zobo has high commercial value that state governments could key into, which already Jigawa State has and now the largest producer of the commodity, followed by other states like Kastina, Kano, Zamfara, Kebbi, Zamfara, Borno and Yobe.

Meanwhile, states like Edo, Kwara could cultivate zobo plant due to the dry weather they have and would also boost their revenue generation.

For the farmers of zobo, he said were registering in Jigawa and Kano States, but advised them to form organised hibiscus farmers’ clusters as seen in other crops and value chains, which would further increase the production and export volumes, thereby access government and donor interventions in capacity building and technical assistance.

“In the last one year there has been increase in exports of agricultural commodities. Hibiscus alone in one country, Mexico, generated $35 million in nine months. Last year we made more than $20 million, and that is just one commodity.

“In the last one year we have done what we call export improvement initiative for so many commodities. That means we are bringing those commodities that were lying low to ensure that they are properly positioned for export.

“They use it for organic colouring agents for drinks and wines, and as natural blended drink as we drink zobo here in Nigeria, the pharmaceuticals also use it for colouring because is organic.

“In 2016 it generated $20 million, while in 2017 it generated $35 million within nine months. 1, 983 containers were exported to Mexico alone, while other countries in Europe like Germany, Greece, Latvia, and countries of former USSR.”

Meanwhile, on the issue of Mycotoxin the NAQS boss said has been a serious food safety challenge bedeviling Nigeria and many other countries around the world. Mycotoxins are poisonous substances secreted by fungi on food and feed which are associated with immunosupression, growth stunting, cancers, particularly liver and kidney cancers, infertility and death among animals and humans. On contamination, they constitute a serious food safety problem and have consequences on agriculture, public health, national and international trade.

According to him the 13 agricultural commodities the committee whose members are drawn from Ministries of Health, Agriculture, Environment, National Food Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, and other agencies of government for the planned survey will focus on maize, rice, sesame, melon, sorghum, millet, groundnut, ogbono, elubo, dried fish, kilish (beef), animal feed, milk and other animal products.


www.vanguardngr.com/2018/02/nigeria-generates-35-million-hibiscus-export-9-months-naqs/

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by ayusco85(m): 5:53pm On Feb 05, 2018
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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by karnafiu03(m): 5:53pm On Feb 05, 2018
Oya serve us chill ZObO with Iya Amina kpuff kpuff...

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Aieboocaar(m): 5:53pm On Feb 05, 2018
Hoe mai fucqing gosh!!! shocked shocked

So na zobo naim be hibiscus ?!! And i have been consuming it all along


Now i feel like my 4years in uni issa waste!! embarassed

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Emmy3(m): 5:54pm On Feb 05, 2018
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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by tillaman(m): 5:54pm On Feb 05, 2018
Interesting!! Now lots of Nigerians will face d hustle

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Newbiee: 5:56pm On Feb 05, 2018
Sai Baba till 2023!
Your efforts are yielding fruit despite the distraction with politically motivated killings.

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by GavelSlam: 5:56pm On Feb 05, 2018
Good stuff.

The lazy bones can continue to moan whilst the hardworking people smile to the bank.

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by maxtop(m): 5:56pm On Feb 05, 2018
Hope the money will not disappeared very soon. The rate at which money disappeared in this regime that claimed to fight corruption is 2nd to none.

Meanwhile make I sip small Zobo

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Nobody: 5:56pm On Feb 05, 2018
Are we ever going to start exporting hi-tech manufactured products? Na only unprocessed natural raw materials?

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by casdoruche: 5:57pm On Feb 05, 2018
So much despite that people r complaining of sufferings
Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Appetizer(m): 5:57pm On Feb 05, 2018
sad
Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Coitus: 5:57pm On Feb 05, 2018
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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by gurunlocker: 5:57pm On Feb 05, 2018
Good news

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by datola: 5:57pm On Feb 05, 2018
Wow!

Trust Zobot.
Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Generalhealth(m): 5:57pm On Feb 05, 2018
Nice,...

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by GavelSlam: 5:58pm On Feb 05, 2018
maxtop:
Hope the money will not disappeared very soon. The rate at which money disappeared in this regime that claimed to fight corruption is 2nd to none.

Meanwhile make I sip small Zobo

Illiterate.

Some of you are so dumb it beggars belief.

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Nobody: 5:58pm On Feb 05, 2018
as I don see the secret no more buying of sobo again
Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by jashar(f): 5:58pm On Feb 05, 2018
make i enter zobo export business then... grin
Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by gmoney12: 5:58pm On Feb 05, 2018
cool

and the people that bought it will then repackage it and import it back to this country and sell something I do buy for 50naira for 300 or More in the name of beverage health drink
with some rubbish chemical in it as preservatives and den some of you wonder how u get cancer and some other unknown health issue.

be Wise

team natural !!!

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Somebodydaddy01: 5:58pm On Feb 05, 2018
I Dey sell zobo tutu, kun nu ,pongila,sueing gum,asala,Robo,Ekan-na abacha ,baba Dudu .

Call me 090680500407

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Elslim: 5:58pm On Feb 05, 2018
where do they get Lol this statistics??
Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by mccoy47(m): 5:58pm On Feb 05, 2018
Hmmmm.. never knew zobo was hibicus flower o
Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by 2O17: 5:59pm On Feb 05, 2018
cool
Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by origima: 5:59pm On Feb 05, 2018
maxtop:
Hope the money will not disappeared very soon. The rate at which money disappeared in this regime that claimed to fight corruption is 2nd to none.

Meanwhile make I sip small Zobo


My dear talk because others are talking jooo otherwise dem go think se u no dey

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Somebodydaddy01: 6:00pm On Feb 05, 2018
Aieboocaar:
Hoe mai fucqing gosh!!! shocked shocked

So na zobo naim be hibiscus ?!! And i have been consuming it all along


Now i feel like my 4years in uni issa waste!! embarassed


Same here bro

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Fesomu(m): 6:00pm On Feb 05, 2018
Youths self employment opportunity here but they are too big to be farmers... all they do is criticize Buhari for unemployment but use their change to buy iPhones and all

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Tinocosta(m): 6:00pm On Feb 05, 2018
Where the money dey na, one person Don use TSA park all. get your PVC.
Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Fesomu(m): 6:02pm On Feb 05, 2018
Elslim:
where do they get Lol this statistics??
if it's statistics on bad news, u won't ask where o.. omo ale

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Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Flexherbal(m): 6:02pm On Feb 05, 2018
Good one !
Re: Nigeria Generates $35 Million From Hibiscus (zobo) Export In 9 Months- NAQS by Southguy: 6:02pm On Feb 05, 2018
THANK GOD AS IT ONLY CULTIVATED IN THE NORTH

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