FG’s poised to reduce sugar importation — Agric Minister

…As Niger State secures 50,000 hectares for sugarcane production

By Gabriel Ewepu

ABUJA – Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, weekend, reiterated the national government’s resoluteness to trim sweetener importation by reviving the sweetener worth concatenation and pull superior investors.

Kyari stated this during a courtesy sojourn by a delegation from Niger Foods Security Systems and Logistics Company Ltd, led by its Executive Chairman, Sammy Adigun, astatine the ministry’s office successful Abuja.

He said the sweetener worth concatenation was precise captious successful raising the Gross Domestic Product, GDP, of the economy, based connected the immense imaginable it had and the immense fig of farmers successful the worth chain.

The curate assured that the ministry would not hesitate to spouse with credible and superior investors to execute self-sufficiency successful sweetener accumulation and trim importation, successful enactment with the National Sugar Master Plan, NSMP, that would pb to monolithic occupation creation.

He besides said the ministry would enactment with the National Sugar Development Council, NSDC, on with captious stakeholders, to unlock the imaginable successful the sweetener worth chain, portion reaffirming the committedness of the Tinubu-led medication successful the cultivation assemblage to execute nutrient and nutrition information for Nigerians

Earlier successful his remarks, the Executive Chairman, Niger Foods Security, Sammy Adigun, said his institution would cultivate 50,000 hectares of sugarcane, with an output of 2 cardinal tonnes.

“Niger Foods plans to cultivate 50,000 hectares of sugarcane with a people output of 2 cardinal tonnes, aligning with the national government’s imaginativeness of reducing the nation’s dependence connected sweetener imports.

“Last year, the institution successfully recorded 60,000 tonnes of sugarcane from conscionable 3 hectares, a feat it believes tin beryllium expanded nationwide with capable support.

“50,000 hectares of onshore person been secured successful Niger State for sugarcane cultivation, which volition necessitate an estimated $3 cardinal concern successful sweetener plants.

“This inaugural is expected to supply important employment opportunities and fortify Nigeria’s agro-industrial worth chain,” Adigun added.

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