President
Buhari commissions the Sunti Golden Sugar Estate today in Niger State.
The sugar
estate is located on the banks of River Niger, in Mokwa, featuring 17, 000
hectares of irrigable farmland and a sugar mill that processes 4,500 metric
tons of sugarcane per day, considered as the company’s biggest agricultural
investment in Nigeria.
The sugar
estate, owned by Sunti Golden Sugar Estates (SGSE) Ltd., a subsidiary of Flour
Mills of Nigeria Plc., will at full capacity, produce one million tons of
sugarcane, which roughly translates into 100,000 metric tons of sugar yearly.
The farm at
the peak of production will provide direct employment for about 10,000 people
yearly, and impact up to 50,000 people indirectly, including 3,000 small-scale
out growers who will be cultivating sugarcane to feed the mill.
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