Nigeria suspends plan to export sorghum to UK

Published 2021년 3월 23일

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Nigeria's plan to export sorghum to the United Kingdom in 2020 was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as the disruption affected the implementation of the agreement with the UK buyer. Nigeria is the largest producer of sorghum in West Africa and the second largest globally, accounting for about 71% of the regional production. The grain is widely consumed in Nigeria and has potential for industrial use, with the potential to increase production by 40% without increasing land area. The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is partnering with the Nigerian government to promote the crop and is developing sorghum bread, a product that requires less enzymes compared to cassava bread.

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Nigeria suspended its plan to begin exporting sorghum to the United Kingdom in 2020, as a result of the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the country representative of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hakeem Ajeigbe, has said. Mr Ajeigbe told PREMIUM TIMES in March 2020 that potential buyers of the beverage-making cereal had already been contacted in the UK, sales were to start shortly. “Very soon we will be exporting malted sorghum to Britain,” Mr Ajeigbe had said. “I have already linked the major market to some of our sorghum off-takers in Nigeria, they will malt the sorghum and then send it to Britain, there is a market there, there is somebody who wants to buy. “By now, they should have finished with the deal. I have made the linkage – that means that our farmers will be exporting malted sorghum this year, not next year. Actually, the thing is even in some weeks’ time, malted sorghum will be exported outside the ...

Source: Premiumtimesng