Nigeria Sleeps on a GREEN GOLD while Kenya Makes over $180m yearly on Avocado.
This Avocado 🥑 value chain always gets me emotional when I discuss it.
The painful part is Avocado Sector can create 10,000 direct & Indirect Job with export earnings of around N80bn for Nigeria.
Nigeria has the perfect Soil, Climate for Avocado production. Avocado can grow in 20 states in commercial quantities from North Central down to the south.
Even in our Vision 20:2020 Avocado was one of the Industrial Crops that would improve Agricultural Industrialization.
With all these Knowledge there was NO strategy to induce commercial production of this Great crop.
Presently Nigeria isn't regarded as an Avocado producing country in Africa.
The Avocado produced are from subsistent farms that does petty trading with it in rural areas
No improvement in seed technology, no off taking plans, no extension service, no strategy to help Avocado producers improve production.
This crop has huge value chain, Especially the Oil, which is used in Cosmetics, Pharmaceuticals and Medical sector.
Here we are toiling
Because we have a Govt that's short sighted and non-chalant in developing policies for economic growth & Industrialization potential
Our leaders esp policy makers are redundant & Future disoriented.
The Avocado world value is breath taking.. but we lost the Game already.
