{"id":23012,"date":"2025-08-12T13:36:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23012"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:36:50","slug":"nigeria-sugars-down-import-bill-with-400000-tonne-production-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/08\/12\/nigeria-sugars-down-import-bill-with-400000-tonne-production-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria sugars down import bill with 400,000-tonne production deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) of Nigeria\u00a0on August 11, 2025\u00a0charged four companies with 400,000 tonnes of processed sugars to undercut imports.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigeria imports 1.4 million tonnes of the agro-commodity annually, as of 2023, 60 times its current production capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To offset dependence, the NSDC is ramping up domestic production, beginning with an August 5 sugar roadmap<\/u><\/a> – and now this latest deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deal allows four firms to develop four cane belt factories and each produce 100,000 tonnes of the sweetener annually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operations will include Brent Sugar in the southwestern state of Oyo and Legacy Sugar in the northwestern state of Adamawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two more mills in the country\u2019s northeast will further help equate production distribution across Nigeria\u2019s vast geographical span.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Successful operations will bring the total refined sugar output to nearly 450,000 tonnes or a third of current imports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, the NSDC is investing $1-billion <\/u><\/a>in the construction of around 5 mills by a contractor from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mills will help consummate the national designation of 2025 as the year of \u201caccelerated development\u201d for the sensitive sweeteners sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sensitiveness is gaining in tandem with growing sugar intake countrywide, which rose to 1.6 million tonnes in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Nigeria is battling sugar demons holistically to boost production and cut imports. This at a time when the\u00a0FAO Price Index\u00a0<\/u><\/a>ironically indicates price depreciation in both June and July 2025 from a global surplus. A look at the statistics below explains Nigeria\u2019s opposite trend and how it is revamping production.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigeria Sugars Processing <\/strong>Statistics <\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Despite consuming 1\/3rd<\/sup> or $2 billion<\/u><\/a> of Africa\u2019s total sugar intake per year, Nigeria struggles in processing sufficient quantities. Against demand at 1.6 million<\/u><\/a> a year (2021), the country produces barely a trickle at 34,150 tonnes <\/u><\/a>(2021). The below data, interpreted from the FAOSTAT, illustrates yearly production in the 2019-23 period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/strong><\/td>Processed Volume [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>20,000 [unofficial]<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>34,150 [unofficial]<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>17,800 [unofficial]<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>20,900 [unofficial]<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Fig:\u00a0sugar production in Nigeria, 2019-2022.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How<\/strong> does Nigeria aim to boost sugar processing?<\/strong> <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning September 2022, Nigeria was targeting an annual production at 1.7-1.8 million tonnes<\/u><\/a> a year, per the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This was a vision of the National Sugar Master Plan, which the country extended 10 years more in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How<\/strong> high is the daily capacity for cane milling in Nigeria?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cane milling in Nigeria averages 10,000 tonnes<\/u><\/a> a day, while sugar refining reaches 220,000 tonnes a year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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