The National Sugar Institute (NSI) of India and the National Sugar Development Council (NSDC), on Wednesday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the establishment of a Sugar Institute in Nigeria.
The MoU was signed by the Executive Secretary of NSDC, Dr Latif Busari, and the Director-General NSI, Mr Narendra Mohan, at the India High Commission in Abuja.
Speaking at the event, Busari said that the collaboration with NSI would help address the challenges faced in the implementation of Nigeria’s sugar master plan which was launched six years ago.
He said that one of the challenges was the lack of the needed manpower to run the sugar be factories.
“As you all know that the Nigerian sugar master plan was lunch six to seven years ago, and it became clear that we have a serious challenge in terms of the technical manpower needed.
“We saw that if we must succeed in establishing the sugar factories, the factories will be lacking in the areas of managing the factories and the farms.
“Then we saw the need to set up an institution that will rapidly develop the technical manpower that is needed in the sugar industry in Nigeria.
“So, when we decided on that we started looking for where we could leverage on the experiences that several nations have had already.
“We do not have to reinvent the wheel and looking round we came to two institutions, and one of them is the National Sugar Institute Kanpur, India and what you see today is the outcome of the interaction we had in past few months,” he said.
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