Promotion To Africa, Indonesian Agricultural Machinery High Interest: Potential Purchase Reaches 350 Thousand US Dollars

Cassava processing machine. (Photo: Doc. Cahaya Agro Teknik)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian industrial equipment manufacturing industry has invited African entrepreneurs at the Equipment and Manufacturing West Africa (EMWA) international trade show on 26-28 April 2022 at Landmark Center Lagos, Nigeria. This success cannot be separated from the role of the Ministry of Trade through the Indonesian Trade Promotion Center (ITPC) Lagos, which has participated in the exhibition four times.

“Efforts to promote industrial equipment made by ITPC Lagos have attracted the interest of entrepreneurs from Nigeria and surrounding countries. This can be seen during the three days of the event, many visitors to the ITPC Lagos booth gave written requests," said Head of ITPC Lagos Hendro Jonathan in his statement to the media, quoted on Thursday 5 May.

Hendro added that the most in demand were agricultural machinery for cassava, cocoa, ginger, date and coconut products with eight requests, two requests for biscuit making machines, packaging machines with one request, plastic sheet making machines with one request, and recycling machines. plastic as much as one request.

At this exhibition, there were five Indonesian companies that participated online displaying products and information at the ITPC Lagos booth, namely Cahaya Agro Teknik (a manufacturer of agricultural product processing machines), SANCO Indonesia (a manufacturer of processed food machines such as biscuits and wafers), Packaging Integra Center (manufacturer of packaging machines), Plasindo Bhama Prasasta (small and medium-sized business manufacturer of agricultural sprayer equipment), and Sanwel Austindo (manufacturer of smart drain equipment).

Hendro added that currently the Nigerian government is conducting many agricultural industrial sector development programs by issuing soft loans to stakeholders in the agricultural sector. That way, they can have the capital to develop the agricultural product industry in Nigeria.

"Machines for processing cassava, cocoa, ginger and coconut agricultural products made by UKM Cahaya Agro Teknik (CAT) are in great demand by Nigerian business actors with a total potential purchase of up to 350 thousand US dollars. Not only visitors from Nigeria, the cocoa processing machine is also in great demand by visitors from Cameroon," continued Hendro.

Hendro said that at the exhibition there were also several requests made by foreign companies, such as Adventure Commodities Limited from India looking for wafer making and packaging machines, and Deshpande Nigeria Ltd from Lebanon looking for biscuit and wafer making machines.

“This exhibition shows that the food and packaging industry sector continues to grow in Nigeria. Meanwhile, for the agricultural industry, it still shows the need for home-scale agricultural processing machines to process coconut, ginger, cocoa, cassava," concluded Hendro.

EMWA is an international trade show featuring the largest manufactured equipment and machinery products in West Africa. Until the last day of the EMWA, there were around 800 offline visitors who attended. Based on Trademap data, the total import value of Nigeria's HS 84 (machinery, mechanical equipment, nuclear reactor, boiler and parts) in 2021 will reach 1.2 billion US dollars with the main supplying countries being China, the United States, India, Germany and Italy. .