NEPC trains Plateau espresso farmers in export

In an effort to enhance the manufacturing and exportation of espresso, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council has skilled round 200 espresso farmers in Plateau State.

A one-day capacity-building occasion was organised on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in Jos, geared toward bettering the talents of contributors from Riyom and Jos South Native Authorities Areas.

The Regional Coordinator of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council, Mr Samson Idowu, has acknowledged there was a necessity for the workshop to reinforce the manufacturing of the commodity within the state.

He identified that the manufacturing of the commodity was on the decline in Plateau State, regardless of the fertile soil for its manufacturing.

Idowu mentioned, “The workshop was a part of efforts at facilitating the federal government’s agenda on diversification of the non-oil sector and to spice up export potentials of the nation.

“This workshop is necessitated by the findings of a survey carried out by the council some months in the past, the place it was found that the manufacturing of espresso in Plateau was on the decline.”

He confused that tackling a number of the challenges confronting espresso manufacturing made the council carry collectively seasoned specialists to have interaction in strategic enlightenment programmes.

Talking additional, he acknowledged that the occasion was organised to equip espresso farmers, processors, and different stakeholders within the espresso worth chain with the required abilities and information to extend productiveness, enhance high quality, and cut back post-harvest losses.

In keeping with him, the council’s dedication to selling the expansion and number of the economic system’s non-oil sector spurred it to organise the workshop to additional advance the Federal Authorities’s “Export for survival” marketing campaign.

Additionally talking, the Deputy Chairman of Riyom Native Council Space, Mr Yakubu Elisha, expressed his appreciation to NEPC for offering the coaching and inspired the farmers to take it critically to profit from the information gained and enhance the manufacturing of the commodity, thereby assembly the nation’s export calls for.

Some beneficiaries on the coaching appreciated NEPC for the chance and appealed to the federal government to help them with seedlings and funding to assist enhance manufacturing of the commodity.