Nigeria lacks production capacities to meet sugar demand
The Executive Secretary of the National Sugar Development Council, Latif Busari, says Nigeria needs about 250,000 hectares of land for sugarcane cultivation and 28 factories of varying capacities to become self-sufficient in food and industrial demand for sugar.
It is reported by Daily Trust.
He said Nigeria had the potential of becoming a net exporter of sugar if the capacity of the existing sugar plants was enhanced; and new plants established and sugarcane out-grower farmers supported through the provision of credit facilities and basic infrastructure.