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Last Saturday, I went to a grocery store to pick a few things. While l was checking out the things I needed, I saw that some yams were displayed.
The biggest of the yams would have been alright for two heavy eaters. Since I had not eaten yam for quite an age, I was interested in buying the yams.
Okay, I tasted pounded yam which we bought for what could be termed a fortune in Naira!
So, I picked up the yam and proceeded to pick other things. When I got to the cashier to pay, I believe the yam was the most expensive of all the things I bought.
$15.75!
The Canadian dollar is around two hundred and seventy five naira. The yam could not have been more than five hundred naira in Nigeria.
It was not even of the best quality. I later discovered it was imported from Ghana.
The point I’m trying to make in this write up is to appeal to Nigerian entrepreneurs to invest in food exports. So many Nigerians are outside the shores of Nigeria. More often than not, they would want to taste Nigerian food.
I quite realise the challenges being faced by farmers and even the generality of Nigerians in terms of the availability of food items. Where they are available, many may not be able to afford them.
However, I believe investment in food exports could be a way of revamping the comatose economy of Nigeria!
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