Netherland’s foreign ministry, Export Council partner to train Nigerians on standards

Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC)

In an effort to redeem the image of the country’s indigenous products for acceptance in the international markets, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) in collaboration with Centre for the promotion of import from developing countries (CBI), Netherland, recently held a 3-day professional training for 12 Small and Medium Enterprises on export development to the European Union.

The event brought together 12 out of 47 companies that applied for the training which centered on three key commodities, which are cocoa, cashew, and sesame, as it is hoped that the acquired knowledge would be transferred to their various communities and staff towards meeting the standard required in commodity exportation to EU. 

Food Farm New chats with the senior programme manager, East & Southern Africa; Mr. Patrick Th.Gouka revealed that the relationship between Nigeria and Netherland was established in order to assist African countries having substandard export challenges to overcome through training. 

One of the participants, who majored in cashew production, Ifeanyi Chukwu Ugwu said that the training was timely towards enforcement of quality of products to be exported to the EU saying it would encourage participants in the area of acquiring information about global market standard. 

 

An exporter of sesame, Mr.M.B. Usman also told FoodFarm News that the training was indeed an eye opener for most of the companies, noting that the training had given cogent explanation to the issues of meeting up with the necessary standard as regard EU markets.