NACCIMA Partners Agrofood To Strengthen Agro-Allied Sector

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines & Agriculture (NACCIMA) has signed an statement arsenic an Institutional Partner for Agrofood Nigeria 2026, West Africa’s starring planetary commercialized just for the agro-allied, food, beverage and packaging industries.

This strategical concern highlights NACCIMA’s pivotal relation successful promoting Nigeria’s trade, industrial, and cultivation development. It aligns with Agrofood Nigeria’s ngo to foster innovation, investment, and sustainable growth.

Through this collaboration, Nigerian businesses volition summation enhanced entree to planetary partnerships, vulnerability to emerging technologies, and opportunities to showcase section innovations crossed the agrofood and packaging worth chains.

Speaking connected the collaboration, the manager wide of NACCIMA, Olusola Obadimu, said, “We are delighted to collaborate with Agrofood Nigeria 2026. This concern allows our members to link with planetary markets, clasp innovation, and play a cardinal relation successful transforming Nigeria’s agrofood and allied industries. It reaffirms NACCIMA’s committedness to driving commerce, industry, and sustainable endeavor development.”

The managing manager of fairtrade Messe, organisers of AgroFood Nigeria, Paul Maerz said, “we are honoured to invited NACCIMA arsenic our Institutional Partner for the 2026 edition. Their engagement reinforces agrofood Nigeria’s relation arsenic a catalyst for concern maturation and concern advancement. Together, we are creating a level that fosters investment, trade, innovation, and sustainable advancement wrong Nigeria’s nutrient and packaging industries.”

Scheduled from March 24 to 26, 2026, successful Lagos, AgroFood Nigeria 2026 volition convene starring stakeholders, including manufacturers, suppliers, policymakers, investors, and innovators from much than 16 countries.

The lawsuit volition supply a robust level for dialog and partnerships designed to code challenges and unlock opportunities wrong Nigeria’s increasing agrofood and packaging industries.

Nigeria remains 1 of the fastest-growing investors successful nutrient and packaging exertion successful Africa and the Middle East, signaling dependable yearly maturation of 4.2 per cent betwixt 2016 and 2023 (VDMA).

With a colonisation projected to emergence from 235 cardinal successful 2025 to 411 cardinal by 2050, sustainable concern successful nutrient production, processing, and packaging is captious to gathering the demands of this growth.

Nigeria imported €304 cardinal worthy of nutrient and packaging exertion successful 2023, making it Africa’s second-largest capitalist aft South Africa.

The Nigerian nutrient marketplace is projected to scope astir $233.53 cardinal successful 2025, with an expected yearly maturation complaint of 10.76 per cent from 2025 to 2030. (Statista)

Nigeria is Africa’s fourth-largest packaging exertion investor, signaling imports of €139 cardinal successful 2023 (VDMA).