5700-hectare irrigation has been inaugurated in Jigawa state, to address Nigeria’s quest for food security, job creation, and economic diversification.
The Lagos Rice Mill, the largest in Sub-Saharan Africa and fourth largest in the world will create close to 250,000 direct and indirect jobs producing 2.8million bags of 50kg rice per annum.
Opportunity: Nigeria is the fifth largest producer in the billion dollars cashew nuts industry, however, only 10% of his products are processed locally.
Africans have been urged to eat what they produce as well as export the surplus, embrace innovative policies while African leaders should demonstrate the political will and re-commit themselves to the transformation of agriculture on the continent.
