Nigeria Export Promotion Council has urged miners in Osun State to cooperate with it to improve on their products and make them exportable.
The Trade Promotion Advisor, NEPC, Osogbo Export Assistant Office, Benson Oseni, said this during a one-day capacity development programme on solid mineral development for export, which was attended by miners and processors from across the state.
Oseni said NEPC was keen on developing the capacity of miners to improve the quality of the solid minerals they were producing, and exposed them to new methods of processing to make the products meet the demands of the international market.
He said, “The council is keen on developing the capacity of our miners to ensure quality solid minerals and proper processing to make our products ready for international market.
“Solid minerals potentials of Osun State is yet to be harnessed fully for export considering its huge prevalence.
“It is one of our OSOP champion products in Osun State. It is imperative to enlighten and enhance skills of miners, processors and other practitioners about the potentials in the solid mineral space and how they can develop it for export.”
In his remarks, the Chairman, Miners Association of Nigeria, Osun State chapter, Kareem Mutiu, urged the State Government to cooperate with the miners to check activities of those taking sold minerals out of the state through illegal routes.
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