Food security, Dangote launches 8,000 hectares of Rice Outgrowers Scheme.
As the Government turns attention to agriculture to ease the pressure on the economy and create jobs, President of Dangote Group at the weekend flagged off his multibillion Naira 8000 hectares of Rice Outgrowers Scheme in Hadejia, Jigawa State as part of his partnership with governments at all levels to reduce food imports.
minister of agriculture sen.
lokpobiri on hand as dangote rice hits nigerian market.
The launch of the Scheme, marked with the distribution of rice seedlings to the benefitting farmers, is with potential to provide direct jobs for 5000 farmers and another 5000 indirect jobs for various scheme dependants.
The rice project being executed by Dangote Rice Limited and expected to be replicated in six other states of the federation is a fallout of memorandum of understanding signed between Dangote and the Federal government on one hand and the Jigawa State government.
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