Nigeria requires no fewer than 10 cold-chain hubs in each of the 774 LGAs in the country to reduce post-harvest losses to the bare minimum.
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The numerous fruits on most of the trees gave travellers and passers-by an impression of waste, not abundance. “The losses here are massive. Of the stands that are over 10,000, over half is wasted,” said Aondongu Saaku, chairman of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria, Benue State chapter. INFOGRAPH: PostHarvest Losses; After the investment, Teragro was overhauled to process orange juice and mango puree, the first-of-its-kind fruit juice concentrate plant in the country.at the time, Teragro was hoping to increase the size of the plant four-fold within two to three years, with plans to offtake the fruits from farmers. Teragro also processed pineapple concentrate and orange-peel oil for industrial markets.
No fewer than seven state-owned agro-processing enterprises have been listed for privatisation by the Benue State Council on Privatisation on the Benue State Planning Commission“States should concentrate more on small modular processing and storage facilities in communities based on different commodities,” ActionAid said
The absence of government support is increasingly constraining Nigeria’s food export potential, with the country losing half of its perishable export goods yearly due to a dearth of cold chain technology at airports,to the African Centre for Supply Chain. Nigeria is ranked 88th of 139 countries on the world’s Logistics Performance Index.
“Many of our people travel to farm settlements along Ife-Odan to other parts of the border communities along Oyo-Ogbomoso Road and you need to see the state of those roads. Many times, our vehicles break down along the road, and bananas and vegetables get spoiled due to the poor condition of the road,” he said.
Farmers, traders and drivers in places like Ilaro, Makurdi, Jos, Kano and Kaduna have also complained about the impact of bad roads and government neglect. “Solar dryers should also be provided to smallholder women farmers cooperatives in communities based on agriculture produce that can be dried to save losses,” they added.
“The local government is closer to the farmer and so should be in the forefront in preventing losses by promoting the maintenance of food stocks at household and enterprise levels,” the scholars said.
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