Nigeria: Preserving the traditional art of rough road construction **Note:** The original text is in Vietnamese. The translation provided is an accurate representation of the given content in fluent, journalistic-style English.

Source: hanoionline.vn For Jamilu Usman, a seasoned road builder in Kano, the craft of making raw sugar cane is a small-scale production activity but a livelihood that has been passed down through many generations. This is also a family heritage that has been preserved for over 200 years. After the rainy season, ripe cane is harvested and fed into a press to extract the juice. The cane juice is then boiled continuously for hours in large metal vats until it reduces to a dark syrup. This hot mixture is poured into steel molds, left to cool, and solidified into blocks. The final product is packaged in cartons, each containing 100 pieces, ready to be brought to market. Nigeria consumes about 1.5 million tons of sugar annually, most of which is imported in the form of raw and refined sugar at three large industrial sugar refineries. In contrast to this industrial scale, traditional raw sugar production is opening up a different path. According to local traders, this product is ...