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The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) said it has devised more efficient measures against importation of substandard products to protect local manufacturers in the country.
The Director-General of SON, Mallam Farouk Salim stated this during a visit to the organization’s office in Awka, Anambra State, on Saturday.
According to Mallam Salim, the agency will continue to discourage importers of substandard products from short-changing unsuspecting consumers.
He also announced plans to improve workers welfare and increase engagement with stakeholders in the country, noting that the move by the agency would help protect the interest of the business community while also safeguarding life and property.
The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) said it has devised more efficient measures against importation of substandard products to protect local manufacturers in the country.
SON in Rivers generates N85m in revenue through service charges
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By Davies Iheamnachor, PORT HARCOURT
The Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, in Rivers State has generated N85 million to the Federal Government through Service Charges in 2020.
This was just as the Organisation also vowed that it would beam its searchlight on the petroleum industry, adding that it would ensure that global standards are obeyed in the sector.
These were disclosed when the Director-General and Chief Executive of SON, Mallam Faruk Salim, visited the Rivers/Bayelsa State Office on Port Harcourt and Port and Border Operations, Onne, respectively.
Speaking in his address, the State Coordinator, SON, Samuel Ayuba, who is in charge of the two states disclosed that despite the challenge posed on their operations by the dreaded Covid-19 that the body was able to generate about N85 million.
One of these is that farmers do not take ginger farming as a serious business.
Also, the areas of land cultivated by majority of the farmers were small, until recently.
In 2016, ginger farmers cultivated an average of 0.25 hectares. Nowadays, the average farm size is between 0.5 and 1.0 hectre.
Ginger, which is a root crop and a typical herb extensively grown across the world for its pungent aromatic under-ground stem or rhizome, is an important export commodity globally, with demand growing in Asia, Europe and America.
Ginger cultivation started in the country in 1927 around Kwoi, Kubacha, Kafanchan and Kagarko areas of southern Kaduna State and around the neighbouring parts of Plateau State.
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