Niger Foods partners with Nigeria Sugar Development Council to revive the USD 2.5 billion sugar industry.
- Plans include developing 250,000 hectares of sugarcane fields and constructing 6 sugar/ethanol plants in Niger State over the next 3 years.
- Governor Umar Muhammad Bago’s Special Adviser, Abdulberqi Usman Ebbo, announced the initiative aims to promote food security and rural industrialization in Nigeria.
- A deal was signed with Uttam Sucrotech during a side event of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, involving leading sugar value chain experts from Brazil and India.
- The Niger Farms project will utilize about 90,000 hectares along the Sokoto-Lagos Super Highway, with expected production of 2.5 million metric tons of sugar, 250 million liters of ethanol, and generation of 300 megawatts of electricity.
