NIGERIAN HAILS ANAMBRA STATE
OVER $5MILLION FROM SALES OF VEGETABLE
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
BITTER LEAF IS HOT IN THE GLOBAL MARKET RIGHT NOW
Anambra state government has being
hailed by a Nigerian farmer who will not divulge his identities to The News
Office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia for the way it has confronted the issue
of diversification of the nation’s economy with its sales and revenues of at least $5 million from the proceeds
of marketing Bitter Leaf in just six months in the early half of 2016.
A source who is seriously into
farming while speaking excitedly to this reporter in Lagos,Nigeria said all other
states in the country should move from the realm of just talking to actually
offering the services they promised to the
people as an answer to the current recession in the land.
He lamented that Nigerians were
still carried away by the quick money that will be available to be stolen in
the field of oil and gas hence the concentration in that sector to the detriment
of the real sector of the economy.
The farmer who seems to have an
insider knowledge of agric business insisted that Anambra state made as much as
$2million in transactions within the same corresponding period in 2016
Governor Willie Obiano stunned a lot
of country- men when he disclosed with joy at the giant strides he was making
with agriculture in the economy.
Obiano :”in January this year, Anambra made headlines when it became
the first state in Nigeria to export vegetables (Ugu and Onugbu) valued at
$5million to Europe. At the same time, our locally produced brand of rice known
as Anambra Rice recently emerged the Best Rice in Africa at an African Products
Forum in Lagos. Anambra Rice was adjudged better and more wholesome than other
competing brands from South Africa, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Namibia and
Cameroon.”
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