USSEC Partners With Nigeria to Improve Soybean Value Chain
The United States Soybean Export Council (USSEC) has partnered Nigerian stakeholders to improve the soybean value chain and discuss agribusiness strategies to earn value from the crop.
The development was revealed during a meeting with Nigerian soybean stakeholders, agribusiness experts, importers and executives of local soybean processing and milling companies in Lagos.
Speaking, the Counselor for Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Mission to Nigeria, Gerald Smith, noted that the reception provided an opportunity for U.S. agribusiness experts and their Nigerian counterparts to explore possible areas of collaboration in training and capacity-building programs to meet increased protein demand.
Also, he informed that Nigeria and the United States enjoy a long-standing relationship in the agricultural sector, adding that the Foreign Agricultural Service of the U.S. Mission is committed to enhancing collaboration to enable Nigeria’s agribusiness industry meet the country’s vision for nutrition and food safety.
Smith said, “Our partnership to improve Nigeria’s soybean value chain is mutual and a win-win for the United States and Nigeria, especially as regards increase in production and ensuring that quality products are produced to meet demand.”
On his part, USSEC Chairman, Doug Winter, restated the council’s commitment to supporting local efforts to increase Nigerians’ access to healthy and nutritional food.
Meanwhile, USSEC is a non-profit US trade group representing US soybean producers, processors, commodity shippers, merchandisers, allied agribusinesses, and agricultural organizations, with the goal of building preference, improving the value, and enabling market access for the use of U.S. Soy for human consumption, aquaculture, and livestock feed in 82 countries across the world.
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