Post by Trade facilitator on Feb 4, 2022 14:38:58 GMT 1
What Nigeria Can Do To Break Into The Lucrative Mango Export Market? Let Us Study Kenya’s Experience
Mango is a fruit that can be seen everywhere in Nigeria whenever the season starts. The fruit is in abundance, but what has the country made out of it? The nation has made almost nothing out of the abundant mangoes littering the length and breadth of the nation.
It pains and burdens my heart whenever the mango season starts and you take a stroll to the various mango markets in Lagos Nigeria to see mangoes rotting away at the markets, billions of Naira wasting away while the nation is bleeding with the burden of lack of foreign exchange.
In this article, I am going to start with letting our readers know what other African countries are doing with mangoes in the international market. It beats me hollow to know that a country like Kenya has deliberately taken the export of mango to great heights. They have broken the chain. I will take my time to take our readers through what they did to come to where they are today.
Nigeria is ranked the world’s 10th largest producer of mangoes; we produce about 800,000 metric tonnes of the fruit annually. This comes to about 3 percent of the world's total mango production. We are the largest producer of mango in Africa.
According to data from HCD, Kenya is the fourth largest producer of mango in Africa, our dear Nigeria is the largest producer in Africa; still nothing is coming out of the business as regards export. There is no serious history of mango export in Nigeria. How can Kenya , the 4th largest producer of mango in Africa, be making so much money from the commodity while Nigeria, the largest producer in Africa, makes nothing?
Let us look at what Kenya is currently doing and how they intend to tackle the upcoming mango season.
Kenya Resumes Exports of Mango to European Union (EU):
The European Union (EU) is a very important market in the world. The European Union has a population of about 447.7 million inhabitants; it covers over 4 million kilometers. This is a huge market with human beings that are wise and know their rights, when they say yes they mean it. Have your products accepted there and you have made it.
Kenya is currently about resuming its mango export to the European Union (We brought you stories of their travails with pests in the past), now there was a visit by a government delegation of regulatory agencies and private sector in the horticulture industry at Brussels recently.
You can hear it clearly, mangoes are wasting in Nigeria, if you come to Ketu market in Kosofe Local government of Lagos State, and I can give you several containers of rotten mangoes. Why the waste, while we can tap into the export market of mangoes. There is no magic in it, other countries are doing the business and succeeding; countries below us in technology and financial power.
Kenya’s resumption of exports of mangoes to the European Union (EU) is expected to start during the November, 2021– March 2022 season.
What Kenya did to bring itself back into contention is not magic and any serious government can easily do it and start exporting the commodity. It simply requires seriousness on the part of government officials and the private sector.
It is very important to understand that private individuals alone cannot solve this problem; it can only be handled effectively by the government, most preferably the Federal Government.
If you can remember, in one of our articles in the past we brought to you news about how Kenya placed a ban on itself on Export of mango to the EU; yes they banned themselves from exporting mangoes to the EU. This was done because of some pest problems they were facing causing them some quality problems.
Mango is the second-largest exported fruit in Kenya; it contributes about 10.8% of its total fruit export with a value of KSh1.4 billion.
In the next article on this, we will be looking at what Kenyan farmers and government officials did to solve the problem of fruit fly in order to launch themselves back into the EU mango export market.
Our company is one of the best Agro Export Business companies in Nigeria today, we train individuals and corporate organizations on how to do Export Business the right way; if you are interested, please contact the admin of this forum now for further details.
Mango is a fruit that can be seen everywhere in Nigeria whenever the season starts. The fruit is in abundance, but what has the country made out of it? The nation has made almost nothing out of the abundant mangoes littering the length and breadth of the nation.
It pains and burdens my heart whenever the mango season starts and you take a stroll to the various mango markets in Lagos Nigeria to see mangoes rotting away at the markets, billions of Naira wasting away while the nation is bleeding with the burden of lack of foreign exchange.
In this article, I am going to start with letting our readers know what other African countries are doing with mangoes in the international market. It beats me hollow to know that a country like Kenya has deliberately taken the export of mango to great heights. They have broken the chain. I will take my time to take our readers through what they did to come to where they are today.
Nigeria is ranked the world’s 10th largest producer of mangoes; we produce about 800,000 metric tonnes of the fruit annually. This comes to about 3 percent of the world's total mango production. We are the largest producer of mango in Africa.
According to data from HCD, Kenya is the fourth largest producer of mango in Africa, our dear Nigeria is the largest producer in Africa; still nothing is coming out of the business as regards export. There is no serious history of mango export in Nigeria. How can Kenya , the 4th largest producer of mango in Africa, be making so much money from the commodity while Nigeria, the largest producer in Africa, makes nothing?
Let us look at what Kenya is currently doing and how they intend to tackle the upcoming mango season.
Kenya Resumes Exports of Mango to European Union (EU):
The European Union (EU) is a very important market in the world. The European Union has a population of about 447.7 million inhabitants; it covers over 4 million kilometers. This is a huge market with human beings that are wise and know their rights, when they say yes they mean it. Have your products accepted there and you have made it.
Kenya is currently about resuming its mango export to the European Union (We brought you stories of their travails with pests in the past), now there was a visit by a government delegation of regulatory agencies and private sector in the horticulture industry at Brussels recently.
You can hear it clearly, mangoes are wasting in Nigeria, if you come to Ketu market in Kosofe Local government of Lagos State, and I can give you several containers of rotten mangoes. Why the waste, while we can tap into the export market of mangoes. There is no magic in it, other countries are doing the business and succeeding; countries below us in technology and financial power.
Kenya’s resumption of exports of mangoes to the European Union (EU) is expected to start during the November, 2021– March 2022 season.
What Kenya did to bring itself back into contention is not magic and any serious government can easily do it and start exporting the commodity. It simply requires seriousness on the part of government officials and the private sector.
It is very important to understand that private individuals alone cannot solve this problem; it can only be handled effectively by the government, most preferably the Federal Government.
If you can remember, in one of our articles in the past we brought to you news about how Kenya placed a ban on itself on Export of mango to the EU; yes they banned themselves from exporting mangoes to the EU. This was done because of some pest problems they were facing causing them some quality problems.
Mango is the second-largest exported fruit in Kenya; it contributes about 10.8% of its total fruit export with a value of KSh1.4 billion.
In the next article on this, we will be looking at what Kenyan farmers and government officials did to solve the problem of fruit fly in order to launch themselves back into the EU mango export market.
Our company is one of the best Agro Export Business companies in Nigeria today, we train individuals and corporate organizations on how to do Export Business the right way; if you are interested, please contact the admin of this forum now for further details.
