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Export Promotion Strategies for Primary Products: New Approaches to Trade Development in Africa

Guest post by: African Development Bank

Article Overview: Many believe that agricultural exports can be made to once again contribute substantially to export earnings.

Export Promotion Strategies for Primary Products: New Approaches to Trade Development in Africa

Many believe that agricultural exports can be made to once again contribute substantially
to export earnings. In addition to the traditional export commodities, it is believed that
Africa has significant potential for export of the following products: horticulture, Soya
beans, shrimps, fish, cashew nuts, and gum Arabic. Note that in order to have a
reasonable chance of success, government should vigorously promote improvements in
rural infrastructure, enhance extension delivery services, undertake aggressive marketing,
provide comprehensive agricultural trade information and offer other requisite incentive
packages and trade support infrastructure.

African Development Bank
Economic Research Working Paper Series
Enhancing Africa’s Trade: From Marginalization
to an Export-Led Approach to Development
Milton A. Iyoha
Professor, Department of Economics & Statistics
University of Benin, Nigeria
Economic Research Working Paper
No 77 (August 2005)

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