Newbiee:
Sai Baba till 2023!
Your efforts are yielding fruit despite the distraction with politically motivated killings.

lereinter:


is it the cow that created/ invented the zobo leaf, or its the one that is buying it abroad
you better dont place a curse on your head nd family

Shayneward1:
I find it hard to believe that Nigeria got $35 million dollars through zobo export

Tell me another lie.

Ontarget:
Are we ever going to start exporting hi-tech manufactured products? Na only unprocessed natural raw materials?

Southguy:
THANK GOD AS IT ONLY CULTIVATED IN THE NORTH

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

GoldHorse:


Focusing, strengthen and developing one's area of competitive advantage is a strategy for Masters instead of competing where one is a novice. How many years do you think it will take us to reach the proficiency level of high tech countries? Nigeria is more agriculturally and mineral resources endowed.

What we should canvas for is adding value instead of exporting raw products. After we are established as a leader in those sectors we can now do what you are suggesting.

GavelSlam:


It is the flower that is exported.

They broke it down for you to understand alas, it was in vain.

Somebodydaddy01:


Same here bro

so no be only me be olodo last last??

better o! lol

Shayneward1:


How can you generate 15 billion naira exporting flowers.

Do you ask yourself some questions?

karnafiu03:
Oya serve us chill ZObO with Iya Amina kpuff kpuff...

Nusaf:
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Dindirin, this is at national level, not the flowers at your backyard.

Shayneward1:


Mynd4 rule 2

Shayneward1:


How can you generate 15 billion naira exporting flowers.

Do you ask yourself some questions?

Pavore9:


Since you are talking about flower export, between January and May 2017 Kenya earned 147 billion naira exporting flowers. Over 50% of the Rose flower that will be used in Europe this Valentine will come from Kenya.

Shayneward1:


How can you generate 15 billion naira exporting flowers.

Do you ask yourself some questions?

Shayneward1:

How can you generate 15 billion naira exporting flowers.
Do you ask yourself some questions?

GavelSlam:


Illiterate.

Some of you are so dumb it beggars belief.

Newbiee:
Sai Baba till 2023!
Your efforts are yielding fruit despite the distraction with politically motivated killings.

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

Realsman405:
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/