Ginger

Product Name:Â Ginger

Botanical Name: Zingiber Officinale

HS Code:Â 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:Â Â Â 8% max

Oil content:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 2-4%

Impurities:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 0-2%max

Microbes:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 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.