Pineapple importation
27 Aug
Nigeria loses a whopping N50 million daily to the importation of pineapples despite producing about 1,607,200 metric tons per annum, placing the country as the eighth largest producer of the crop in the world, an Agriculturist, Amb. Oluwasegun Alabi has said. Addressing a news conference at the National Assembly on Monday, August 26, Alabi said…
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