Export Promotion in Agriculture 

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Export Promotion in Agriculture 

CONTENT

• Meaning of Export Promotion
• Activities of Export Promotion
• Examples of Nigeria Export Promotion
• Importance of export promotion

Export promotion

Export promotion in Agriculture is a set of activities that are directed at increasing the sales of agricultural products to other countries. These activities include:

1. Identification of products and markets
2. Location of new investment opportunities
3. Provision of trade information
4. Provision of support services e.g. assistance with export procedures, product quality, export financing, transportation etc.
5. Organizing trade fairs and trade missions

Trade fairs are exhibitions organized to bring together producers and buyers in an atmosphere conducive to transact business.

Trade missions consist of a group of persons (government representatives and delegates of the private business sector) who visit a foreign country to promote trade.

Export promotions are responsibilities of organizations referred to as Trade Promotion Organization (TPO). NEPC Nigerian export promotion council is the federal government agency responsible for promoting trade in Nigerian goods. Therefore Nigerian TPO is NEPC. NEPC was established through the promulgation of the Nigerian Export Promotion Act No 26 of 1976 and inaugurated in March 1977.

The Act was however amended in 1979, 1986, 1988 and 1992 to enhance its performance, minimize bureaucracy and increase its autonomy in dealing with members of organized private sectors involved in exportation.

Evaluation

1. What is Export Promotion?
2. List three activities of export promotion.

List of some Agricultural Export products exported from Nigeria is cassava, cashew nut, charcoal, chillies, cocoa, beans, coffee, cotton lint, fish, ginger, groundnut, gum Arabic, horns, kola nut, poultry, rubber, sesame seed, shea nuts, shrimps, skins, snails, tobacco, vegetable oil, wheat pellets, yam, grasscutter.

• Processed foods, vegetables and spices

They are ginger, garlic, ukazi, cassava flour, garri, locust beans, yam flour, plantain flour, ground rice, ground melon, dehydrated vegetables.

• Horticulture products

Okro, mangetout (French beans), chillies, mangoes, pineapples, sugar cane, cut-live-flowers.

Importance of export promotion

1. It provides employment opportunities and means of livelihoods to workers in the production, processing, transportation and export industries
2. Provision foreign exchange for the exporter and the country
3. It increases farmers income
4. It encourages bilateral and multilateral trade relations among nations of the world

Export prohibitions

This is aimed at regulating export trade and protecting natural and agricultural resources from exploitation. Products prohibited from export by the Nigerian Customs Service.

1. Wet blue and all unfinished leather
2. Unprocessed rubber latex and lumps
3. Wildlife animals classified as endangered species and their products.

Evaluation

1. What is Export Promotion?
2. What is a trade fair?

General evaluation

1. What is a trade mission?
2. List three horticultural export crops.
3. List three importance of export promotion.
4. What is the function of NEPC?
5. List two export prohibitions.

Reading assignment

Answer all revision questions on page 76 of Junior Secondary Agriculture 3 for Nigerian Schools.

Theory

1. What is export promotion?
2. List three activities in export promotion.
3. List four importance of export promotion.
4. Give a list of two export prohibitions in Nigeria.

 

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