The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has advised Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to embrace modern packaging of their products to make the required impact on both domestic and international markets.
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The executive director of NEPC, Segun Awolowo, gave the advice at the Capacity Building programme for SMEs held in Marian Hotel, Calabar
The programme had the theme, “Strengthening Technological Skills of SMEs to Produce for Export.”
Awolowo, who was represented by Emmanuel Mathew assistant director project development department of NEPC said that the production of agricultural products had gone beyond mere assembling of the products.
He said that SMEs were recognised globally as instruments for economic growth, development, and poverty reduction and provides employment to a large number of citizens in a given economy
In his welcome address, the Trade Promotion Advisor Calabar Smart Office, Emmanuel Etim said the NEPC has repositioned its service to aggressively harness, develop, process, and package these identified agro and allied products using affordable and efficient locally fabricated equipment for meaningful non oil export.
