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Infrastructure, quality control threaten Nigeria’s yam export drive

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Nigeria’s ambition to be a yam exporting country may be threatened by poor infrastructure and quality control, The PUNCH correspondent has learnt.

Yam does not feature among the list of major traded agricultural products for 2018, or the previous years.

An attempt to export 72 tonnes of yams from Nigeria to Europe and the United States of America in June 2017 failed as the produce arrived their destination in a bad shape, leading to their rejection.

But the country is set to take another leap into the yam export space.

The PUNCH, January 18, 2019

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