Nigeria: Imota rice mill to start production 2022 – Sanwo-Olu
Rice
Nigeria
Published Dec 11, 2021
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The rice mill has been built with a capacity to produce 2.8 million bags of 50kg bags of rice yearly
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Barring any exigency, the 32-metric tons per hour Rice Mill being constructed by Lagos State Government in Imota area of Ikorodu division will start operations before end of first quarter in 2022. Babajide Sanwo-Olu gave this assurance after touring the project site on Friday. Mr Sanwo-Olu said the facility would be subjected to a pre-production test run before the end of first quarter next year, after which the full production capacity would be activated rice production. Two years after his first visit, the governor went on an on-the-spot assessment of the biggest agro project being undertaken by a sub-national Government. He was accompanied by Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya, and members of the State cabinet. Mr Sanwo-Olu said he was elated by the progress achieved on the site, having met the project from the foundation level. He said the project was expected to have been delivered by the end of 2020, but for the disruption occasioned by the outbreak of ...
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