DRIVE TOWARDS DIVERSIFICATION: DELTA STATE INAUGURATES EXPORT PROMOTION IMPLEMENTATION SUB COMMITTEE
The Delta State Commissioner
for Commerce and Industry, Barr. Mrs. Mary Iyasere, has inaugurated the Project
Implementation and Strategy subcommittee of the state Committee on Export
Promotion.
The ceremony took place yesterday at conference room in the
office of the commissioner during a meeting of the state Committee on Export
Promotion.
Barr. Iyasere said that the inauguration
of the subcommittee has become expedient due to the inability of producers in
the State to export their products.
She charged members of the subcommittee
to work towards the provision of suitable platforms for farmers in the state to
export their products.
The Chairman of the
committee, who is also the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce and
Industry, Mr. Arthur-Prest Umukoro, thanked the Commissioner for giving members
of the subcommittee the opportunity to contribute their quota in the export
promotion drive of the state.
During the meeting of the
committee, two possible products for exportation, palm oil and cassava, were
penciled down, while more investigations will be carried out to find out the
comparative advantage of each product over others.
This is in line with the
one-state-one-product programme initiative of the Federal Government aimed at
boosting export.
Members of the Sub Committee
are the Permanent Secretary, Government House and Protocol, Director of
Commerce in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, representatives of Delta
State Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (DACCIMA), Manufacturers
Association of Nigeria (MAN), Shippers Council, All Farmers Association of
Nigeria (AFAN), Ministry of Economic Planning, Bank of Industry, Bank of
Agriculture, Nigerian Immigration Service, Nigerian Customs Service and Delta
State chapter of the National Youth Council.
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