Nigerian growers are hoping to drastically increase the annual revenues from the export of mushrooms to the international market, National President of the Mushroom Growers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria, Michael Awunor stated on Wednesday.
Awunor stated that Nigeria is determined to earn 10 percent of the world mushroom market. According to him, the Nigerian economy is dominated by crude oil, which accounts for more than 83% of the country’s export earnings, but mushrooms offer so much hope to contribute significantly to the country’s GDP and the economic diversification drive.
“It is estimated that the mushroom sub-sector along the value chain could provide 16 million skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled jobs to the teeming unemployed universities, polytechnics and colleges of education graduates, vulnerable youths and women,” he told dailytrust.com.ng.
