Nigeria could earn about $3 billion yearly when it resumes exportation of hibiscus flowers to Mexico from January next year. INDEPENDENT reports.Information Guide Nigeria
Adejare Bello, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Mexico, disclosed this last week after Dr. Vincent Isegbe, the Comptroller General, Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), who represented Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, signed a bilateral agreement on behalf of Nigeria in Mexico.
According to a statement by Abimbola Tooki SSA, Media to the ambassador, Nigeria had maintained good trade relations with Mexico in the exportation of hibiscus until 2017 when the relationship was suspended upon discovery that some containers of hibiscus flowers brought from Nigeria were contaminated with pests. During the period, Nigeria raked in over $600 million annually before the exportation was suspended by the Mexican authorities.JAMB Result
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Bello revealed that upon his resumption as the Nigerian envoy to Mexico in June last year, he immediately swung into action aimed at resuscitating the relationship among other steps he had taken to take the trade relationship that had existed between both countries to the next level.
According to industry players, hibiscus is a major income earner for the country, with Mexico importing about 85 percent of Nigeria hibiscus. Despite its many uses and potential, many do not know much about it. Dry hibiscus flower is one of the key raw materials in the global confectioneries industry.
“I made some enquiries as to what led to the suspension and having been properly briefed; I took it up from there.,” he said. “The coast became clearer in April this year when I went with my colleagues in the Embassy to the National Assembly (Chambers of Deputies) for the Inauguration of the Parliamentary Friendship Group between Mexico and Nigeria. We told the congressmen the need to resume the trade in the presence of the Mexican Ambassador-designate to Nigeria, Alfredo Miranda, who promised to intensify efforts for the trade on hibiscus flowers to resume.”
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