Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc will cut down the sugar imports by 40 per cent, said the management of the company.
Aliko Dangote, the President of the Dangote Group issued a statement stating that the company was working on Phase II of its sugar project aimed to make the sugar plant the largest in Africa by covering a 100,000ha area and generating employment for 30,000 citizens.
The sugar complex would be set up in Tunga, in the Awe Local Government Area of Nasarawa state, said Dangote. It states that this will comprise a 60,000ha sugar plantation and two sugar factories having the capacity to produce 430,000 tonnes of refined white sugar per annum.
“As per the Trade Data Monitor, cumulative raw sugar exports from Brazil to Nigeria in 2020/21 season was 1.62 million tonnes,” it further stated.
