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Nigerians should embrace agricultural exports to boss GDP: NAHCO

The GMD said exporting provided the nation with an opportunity for foreign exchange earnings.

• January 7, 2024
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The Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (NAHCO) has advised the nation’s entrepreneurs to explore huge opportunities in agro-product exportation where Nigeria has enormous potential.

At an interactive session with aviation journalists in Lagos, Indranil Gupta, the group managing director and chief executive officer of NAHCO, urged more Nigerians to embrace exportation to reverse the import dependence trend.

Mr Gupta said there was a high craving for Nigerian agro-produce in African countries, but the supplies were not enough, hence the need for more Nigerians to go into export to bridge the gap.

He advised Nigerians to export to Africa and extend to the rest of the globe to create wealth and grow the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

He said citizens should seize inter and intra-continental opportunities but start from the African market.

“Nigeria can be the breadbasket of this continent. Producers must recognise the rich potential in both intercontinental and intracontinental trade,“ he said.

He said NAHCO recently unveiled its export processing centre in Lagos to provide a one-stop shop to help farmers complete processes needed for export.

The GMD said the facility in Lagos was the first of five of such centres that would also be developed in Abuja, Port-Harcourt, Enugu, and Kano to boost Nigeria’s export policy.

He said centres, which would benefit all geopolitical zones in Nigeria, would enhance the country’s export drive and standardise the nation’s export processing system.

The GMD said exporting provided the nation with an opportunity for foreign exchange earnings.

Mr Gupta also expressed hope that the purchasing power of Nigerians would improve to increase air passenger traffic in the nation, which would also impact exportation positively.

(NAN)

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