Ginger

Product Name:  Ginger Botanical Name: Zingiber Officinale HS Code:  091010 Brief Product Description: Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or simply ginger, is widely used as a spice or a medicine. It is an herbaceousperennial which grows annual stems about a meter tall bearing narrow green leaves and yellow flowers. The rhizome (ginger) is gathered when the stalk withers; it is immediately scalded, or washed and scraped, to kill it and prevent sprouting. Major Producing Areas: Kaduna state is the major producer of the product. Other producing States include; Nasarawa Benue Niger Gombe States Estimated Production Figure: 369,019 MT (FAO; 2018) Quality/Standard: Moisture content:      8% max Oil content:               2-4% Impurities:                0-2%max Microbes:                 Negative Packaging: The  fresh ginger are packaged in PVC cartons or corrugated fibre box  with inner lining of PE films while the dried split ginger are packaged in a clean propylene woven bags.