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Buhari inaugurates 32 metric tons-per-hour Imota rice mill in Lagos

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January 24, 2023
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Buhari inaugurates 32 metric tons-per-hour Imota rice mill in Lagos

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday inaugurated a 32 Metric tons-per-hour rice mill in Imota in Ikorodu, a suburb of Lagos, to support rice revolution in Nigeria.

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The Lagos Rice Mill, Imota is a 2 x 16 Metric tonnes per-hour mill standing on an area of 8.5 hectares of land.

The project has an annual paddy requirement of over 240,000 metric tons to produce 2.5 million bags of 5OKg rice per annum.

Buhari, who landed in Imota around 5:30 p.m. took a brief tour of the mill in company of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Sen. Tokunbo Abiru, Mr Colinious Ojelabi, Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Lagos State and Mr Ganiyu Solomon, APC Presidential Campaign Committee Chairman, Lagos.

Other dignitaries who accompanied the president include; Ms Abisola Olusanya, Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Rotimi Fashola, Special Adviser to the president on Rice Initiative, NiDCOM boss, Mrs Abike Dabiri, as well as Jimi Benson and Oba Gbolahan Lawal, who are traditional rulers.

The president unveiled the rice and observed a brief display of how the rice is being produced and packaged.

Speaking on his behalf, Sanwo-Olu said that Lagos was ready to support Buhari’s rice revolution.

According to him, the Lagos Imota rice mill is part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s agricultural revolution.

“When he started his government, he says Nigeria must grow what they eat and they should eat what they grow.

“We are happy that Lagos is the testament for that. With 2.8 million bags of 50kg rice per annum, Lagos is ready to support rice and food revolution in Nigeria.

“The units rice mill will create close to 250.000 direct and indirect jobs. We want to thank the local communities of Imota in Ikorodu. We thank you all for waiting patiently.

“Mr president is indeed excited that we have stated another first in Nigeria and in sub-Saharan Africa,” he said.

Ms Abisola Olusanya, the state Commissioner for Agriculture said that the mill would produce wholesome rice to Lagos residents at affordable price.

Also, Dr Rotimi Fashola, Special Adviser to the governor on Rice Initiative said the mill would perform cleaning, boiling, drying, sorting, hauling, polishing and bagging of rice using digital, automated and latest machine in the world.

Contributing, Dr Femi Oke, Chairman, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Lagos State and South-West Zone commended the state government for the laudable initiative.

Oke said that farmers would continue to support the mill by providing more paddy.

Also, Mr Raphael Hunsa, Chairman, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter said the new rice mill would ginger farmers to produce more in the state.

Hunsa urged the state government to continue to empower farmers with implements in order to increase paddy production to feed the mill.

“This project is very wonderful, it is a thing of joy to us as rice farmers in Lagos. I am happy that such a thing is happening in Lagos,” he said.

State government officials, traditional rulers, members of AFAN, Ogbonge Women Farmers Association, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria and secondary school students are dignitaries that graced the occasion.

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