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Eight official country pavilions and many global technology leaders present in 2019

Visitors pre-register for free

Good news around agrofood & plastprintpack Nigeria 2019: The 5th edition features a record participation and will be the biggest ever. In connection with a strong institutional support both in Nigeria and internationally as well as an excellent conference program a successful show is guaranteed.
The event is organised by the German trade show specialists fairtrade Messe and it is scheduled for 26 to 28 March 2019 at the Landmark Centre in Lagos.

Eight official country pavilions will be present at the 5th edition
of agrofood & plastprintpack Nigeria on 26 to 28 March 2019 at
the Landmark Centre in Lagos. Namely from Belarus, China,
France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and
Turkey – a remarkable participation, the biggest ever! Plus
individual exhibitors from lots of other countries. Big names
participate as exhibitors – see the preliminary list of exhibitors.
agrofood Nigeria covers the entire value chain, from field to
fork, consisting of the three sub-brands agroAgroTech
Nigeria, food + bev tec Nigeria and food + hospitality Nigeria:

agro AgroTech Nigeria 2019

fairtrade and DLG enter into strategic partnership: Since 2015 agro Nigeria has been organized by fairtrade as part of agrofood
Nigeria. Now DLG German Agricultural Society enters into
strategic partnership with fairtrade and brings in its agro and
trade fair expertise by introducing its AgroTech brand to the
agro event of fairtrade’s agrofood trade show. The focus of the
cooperation lies on crop production and animal production.
Organisers of the world’s No. 1 trade shows Agritechnica and
Eurotier, DLG is the global leader in professional trade fairs in
the fields of agricultural engineering, crop production, animal
production and bioenergy.

food + bev tec Nigeria 2019

Double-digit growth: Nigeria invests heavily in its food
production as it increased its imports of food processing and
packaging technology in sub-Saharan Africa Nigeria’s imports of
food and packaging machinery by 15% in 2017. From 228
million euros to 262 million euros. This makes Nigeria the
second largest importer of such technologies in sub-Saharan
Africa. Nigeria‘s imports of packaging technology even increased
by 34% in 2017, from 113 million euros to 152 million euros.
(Source: German Engineering Federation VDMA) Double-digit
growth is also forecasted for 2018 and 2019.

food + hospitality Nigeria 2019

According to WTO World Trade Organization Nigeria’s food trade
sums up to a 5.916 billion US$ business in 2017. With imports
of 5.102 billion US$ and exports of US$ 814 million. As such
Nigeria is Africa’s largest food market.

plastprintpack Nigeria

The Country Cluster of EUROMAP-European Plastics and Rubber
Machinery confirms significant growth for Nigeria. The per
capita consumption of plastics in Nigeria has grown by about
5% annually over the past ten years, from 4.0 kg in 2007 to 6.5
kg in 2017 and is estimated to be 7.5 kg in 2020. Nigeria’s
plastics consumption has grown by 7.8% annually over the past
ten years, from 578 kt in 2007 to 1.229 kt in 2017 and is
estimated to be 1.533 kt in 2020. And the country’s plastics
production has grown by 13.9% annually over the past ten
years, from 120 kt in 2007 to 442 kt in 2017 and is estimated
to be 513 kt in 2020. Being the largest importer of plastics
technology in Sub-Sahara Africa Nigeria invests heavily in
its plastics industry. Its imports of plastics technology
increased by 70% in 2017, from 54 to 92 million euros.
Nigeria’s imports of printing & paper processing technology
summed up to 41 million euros in 2017. Its imports of
packaging technology increased by 34% in the same year, from
113 to 152 million euros. (VDMA)

Strong international support

agrofood & plastprintpack Nigeria 2019 enjoys the strong
support of the following Nigerian and international institutions:
 Delegation of the European Union to Nigeria and
ECOWAS
 adepta French Agrofood Association
 Advantage Austria
 AHK Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in
Nigeria
 The dti Department Trade and Industry South Africa
 German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
 IOPN Institute of Packaging Nigeria
 NABC Netherlands African Business Council
 NABG Nigeria Agribusiness Group
 NAFDAC National Agency for Food and Drug
Administration and Control
 NIFST Nigerian Institute of Food Science & Technology
 Switzerland Global Enterprise
 Turkish Ministry of Trade
 Turkish Exporters Assembly
 VDMA German Engineering Federation

3-day conference program

agrofood & plastprintpack Nigeria 2019 will again be
supplemented by a 3-day program full of presentations and
conferences. Experts and exhibitors will hold presentations on
the presentation platform in the center of the exhibition hall. At
the 2018 event, 20+ speakers from Nigeria and Europe
presented valuable information on technology and finance.
For more information about the exhibitors & products and to
register as visitor:
www.agrofood-nigeria.com
www.ppp-nigeria.com

Pictures in high resolution can be requested by email.

fairtrade – Valuable business contacts

fairtrade was founded by Martin März in 1991. Since long,
fairtrade ranks among the leading organisers of professional
international trade fairs in emerging markets, especially in
North and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Eastern
Europe. Managed by its shareholder and his son Paul März and
committed to the values of a family business and the team
spirit, fairtrade maintains a powerful network of partnerships
throughout the world. fairtrade organizes shows in the sectors
Agrofood, Building, CIT Solutions, Energy, Environment,
Industry and PlastPrintPack and strives for a high level of
customer satisfaction. By means of innovative products and
excellent service fairtrade organizes professional platforms for
valuable business contacts between exhibitors and visitors.
fairtrade is a member of UFI The Global Association of the
Exhibition Industry and AAXO The Association of African
Exhibition Organisers. Our management is ISO 9001:2015
certified.

Contact for press and media:

fairtrade GmbH & Co. KG
Ms Nadine Wagner
Public Relations
Kurfürsten-Anlage 36
D-69115 Heidelberg
Tel +49 / 62 21 / 45 65 22
Fax +49 / 62 21 / 45 65 25
n.wagner@fairtrade-messe.de
www.fairtrade-messe.de

Contact for exhibitors:

fairtrade GmbH & Co. KG
Ms Freyja Detjen
Project Management
Kurfürsten-Anlage 36
D-69115 Heidelberg
Tel +49 / 62 21 / 45 65 19
Fax +49 / 62 21 / 45 65 25
f.detjen@fairtrade-messe.de
www.fairtrade-messe.de