Description

The list of ginger uses is almost endless, being a pungent spicy herb and one of the more popular food spices. They range from baked products like gingerbread, ginger biscuits, ginger cookies to drinks like ginger tea, ginger beer, ginger ale, etc.
While a number of Nigerians have restricted its uses to these two aspects, some others have gone into its cultivation and acquisition for the purpose of export.
Nigeria produces an average of *0,**0 metric tonnes of fresh weight ginger per annum. Out of this production, an average of *0 per cent is locally consumed as fresh ginger, while *0 per cent is dried and *0 per cent of this is consumed locally for various uses while the remaining is exported.