The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC), has commenced discussions with the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), to seek potential collaborations that can add value to the Council’s search for serious investments into the sugar subsector.
The discussion commenced with the visit of ACCI leadership led by Barr. Emeka Obegolu, to the Executive Secretary of the Council, Mr. Kamar Bakrin.
Welcoming his guests, Mr. Bakrin shared the history and mandate of the Council as well as the destination and the direction it must take to get there.
He said: “We execute our mandate through what is termed the Nigeria Sugar Master Plan (NSMP), which is in its second phase. The NSMP is a 10-year blueprint geared towards self-sufficiency in sugar production. The target is for us to be able to produce 2 million metric tons of sugar annually, which covers the current annual consumption of about 1.8 million tons. So that is essentially what the objective of the NSMP II, as it is known. It is predicated on about seven pillars.

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