GOOD NEWS: UK makes huge demand for Anambra leaves

– The UK has placed a demand for scented leaves from Anambra state

– The state tutored some farmers on how to produce the leaves to meet the deadline

The United Kingdom has placed order for Anambra scent leaf popularly known Nchuanwu.

This order is coming after the state successfully exported Ugu vegetable to some European countries which yielded about N5 million British pounds.

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Vanguard reports that 40 cooperative societies from the three senatorial zones of the state have been empowered to grow the vegetable to be able to meet the order in the next two months.

The state tutored representatives of the cooperative societies on the processes involved in the cultivation of the vegetable for two days in Awka.

They were provided with three water pumps each with suction and discharge facilities, special type of fertilizer and some quantities of the scent leaves.

Mrs. Nneka Onwudiwe who is the senior special assistant to Governor Willie Obiano on UNDP and Foreign Donors urged the farmers to work hard to meet the UK demand.

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She said: “Usually we do dry season farming, but because the state is exporting vegetables, we decided to grow Nchuanwu at this time, because we have ready up-takers, who will export the vegetable so that we can meet the demand of those who have placed orders.”

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