Non-core exports reach P365m :: Mmegi Online

The value of BEDIA-assisted exports - which are considered representative of the country's non-core exports - reached P365 million last year, powering into new African markets and commodities. Besides its more well-known investment promotion mandate, BEDIA's export enterprise development wing had a busy 2010 with the P365 million in facilitated exports exceeding targets by 41 percent.

Leading exports assisted by BEDIA include soda ash and salt, tobacco flavours, condoms, military gear, polyethylene tanks and pipes as well as mealie meal, wheat and pasta products. Other marginal exports included electrical cabling.

BEDIA Corporate Services Director, Lameck Nthekela, revealed that within the value of exports for last year, soda ash and salt from Botash accounted for 55 percent while mealie-meal, wheat and pasta products mainly from Bolux Milling comprised about 26 percent.

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