Reforms laid foundation for Nigeria’s sugar self-sufficiency — NSDC Boss
- ✦Under the Nigeria Sugar Master Plan (NSMP) 2.0, the goal is self-sufficiency in sugar production.
- The Executive Secretary/CEO of the National Sugar Development Council (NSDC), Mr. Kamar Bakrin, has said the bold, macroeconomic reforms put in place by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu have made local sugar production attractive and cleared the pathway for the country to achieve self-sufficiency.
- This is because very few sectors touch all of these priorities at once the way sugar does.” Responding to the Summit’s theme of turning stability into growth that works for ordinary Nigerians, he said sugar offers a practical route.
- Under the Nigeria Sugar Master Plan (NSMP) 2.0, the goal is self-sufficiency in sugar production.
The Executive Secretary/CEO of the National Sugar Development Council (NSDC), Mr. Kamar Bakrin, has said the bold, macroeconomic reforms put in place by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu have made local sugar production attractive and cleared the pathway for the country to achieve self-sufficiency.
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The Executive Secretary/CEO of the National Sugar Development Council (NSDC), Mr. Kamar Bakrin, has said the bold, macroeconomic reforms put in place by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu have made local sugar production attractive and cleared the pathway for the country to achieve self-sufficiency.
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Bakrin said reaching it would save about $1 billion in foreign exchange every year and create about 110,000 direct jobs, most of them in rural communities, on estates, in mills and on outgrower farms where smallholders grow cane for the mills.
