The Director General, Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), Dr. Vincent Isgebe, has stressed the need for collaboration among stakeholders to address the weak link in the cowpea value chain in order to establish continuity of market access for Nigerian beans.
He said the country losses foreign exchange and thousands of jobs when export of cowpea or any other agricultural commodity is suspended on account of a steady trend of intolerable quality defects.
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