Nigeria earns $35m from hibiscus export in 9 months - NAQS
Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) has said the country generated $35 million within nine months in 2017 from hibiscus (zobo) export. Dr Vincent Isegbe, Coordinating Director, NAQS, disclosed this at the ‘National Survey of 13 Agricultural Commodities by the Inter-ministerial Committee on Prevention and Control of Mycotoxins in Agricultural Commodities’ meeting held in Abuja recently. He explained that the committee hopes to establish the prevalence type of mycotoxins and on which commodities as part of efforts to help policy makers decide on what to do next and also open the country’s economy to opportunities in research, development, public health disease prevention and the general wellbeing of the nation. Isegbe said hibiscus, popularly called zobo, has high commercial value which the Jigawa State Government is currently benefitting from and is now the largest producer of the commodity, followed by other states like Kastina, Kano, Zamfara, Kebbi, Zamfara...