The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Aviation Matters, Ann Ene-Etta, has outlined the means by which the government is trying to ensure the successful exportation of farm produce through the aviation sector and the Nigerian Fresh Produce Transformation Programme, which would bring an end to the huge wastage experienced in the food sector.

Ene-Etta made this known during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily at the on-going 19th Nigerian Economic Summit which focuses on the agricultural sector.
She disclosed that 70% of farms produce in the country rot before it reaches the consumers, a trend she assured government is working to tackle via the Nigerian Fresh Produce Transformation Programme because “the essence of it, is for us to ensure that we put the processing facilities in place” as well as the storage, refrigeration facilities “which will assist the farmer to preserve produce that is rotting away”.

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