One hundred trucks conveying 4,000 tonnes of onion have reportedly left Sokoto for other African countries in the aftermath of the recent crisis at Shasa.
The crisis in Shasa reportedly led to the death of 27 onion dealers while 14 trucks were razed.
However, the National President of Onion Producers and Marketers, Aliyu Isa, denied that the decision to export the products resulted from the recent Shasa crisis.
DailyTrust Saturday learnt that this was the first documented onion export witnessed in the country.
Speaking at the flag-off rite, which passed off at Illela border submit, Isa mentioned that the world witnessed a international onion crisis due to the outbreak of purple blotch and Downey mold in 2019 and the undertaking posed via the COVID-19 pandemic.
He delivered that in Nigeria, the scenario was similarly complex via the flooding of 2020, which made it hard to acquire annual onion home needs.
According to him, Nigeria produces 1.4 million metric tonnes of onion each yr and exports it to all African international locations, besides Egypt and the Niger Republic.
He said that earlier than now, they had been spending no longer much less than N1 million to export their merchandise through the informal way, however now that they have formally documented it, they could spend simplest N100,000.
In his comments, the comptroller of Customs in charge of Sokoto and Zamfara states, Alhaji Abdulhameed Ma’aji, stated they'd furnished advanced solutions to ease the exportation of made in Nigeria merchandise.
Also talking, Alhaji Ahmed Yahya, head of the Export Promotion Council in Sokoto, defined the development as a massive carry and extraordinary feat due to the fact many casual exports had been taking location alongside the axis.
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