Monday, 19 September 2016

SON moves to stimulate agric export


The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has come out with strategies aimed at stimulating export of agricultural produce from Nigeria, by ensuring that agric produce meet international standards and are not rejected by the importing country.
As part of the strategy, which was in line with the Federal Government’s economic diversification agenda, SON, according to its Acting Director-General, Dr Paul Angya, has started developing standards for select priority produce from farm to storage, cutting across soil composition, soil preparation, kind of pesticides to use, seed improvement, harvesting, packaging, labelling and storage. Read more Source: www.thenationonlineng.net

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