BUA targets 250,000 mt of refined sugar

BUA Sugar Refinery Limited, operators of Lafiagi Sugar Company (LASUCO) in Kwara state, is expected to produce 250,000 metric tonnes of refined sugar per annum and 35 megawatts of electricity, the Managing Director, Alhaji Ibrahim Yaro, has said.

Alhaji Yaro added that hostility from host communities and the capital demands of constructing irrigation systems have been identified as the problems militating against the Federal Government’s sugar development programme.

Yaro, who spoke while hosting the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Hajia Aisha Abubakar, called on the federal government and other stakeholders to move in and save the situation. He said host communities should be made to appreciate the level of investment being brought to their localities and preserve such, instead of rising to destroy them.