At maximum capacity, the Kogi Rice Milling Plant located on 800 hectares in Ejiba, Yagba West Local Council, Kogi State is expected to create 6,000 direct and indirect jobs.

The rice mill, now completed, is part of the projects embarked upon by the Yahaya Bello administration and is billed to be commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari as part of the activities marking the 28th anniversary of the creation of Kogi State on August 27, 2019.

The Guardian gathered that the plant could easily run over 3000 tons of rice per month and over 36,000 tons per year. This is equivalent to the production of over 720,000 50kg rice bags per year.

Currently, the Industry has 800 hectares nucleus rice farm that feeds the processing plant. While the 800 hectares produce around 3200 tons of paddy rice yearly, the processing plant will consume the 3,200 tons in just a month meaning that expanded rice cultivation is encouraged to meet the feedstock.

The industry will purchase paddy from local farmers across the state and also increase the capacity of its nucleus farm to meet up with the rice milling plant production capacity per year.

The Kogi rice milling process will not only produce finished international standard quality rice but also by-products such as rice bran, brown rice, rice husk and broken rice, among others. It also operates on independent power generation plant in excess of 300kwh.

Kogi State Commissioner for Agriculture, Kehinde Oloruntoba who spoke to The Guardian on the potentials of the industry said: “As at today, the farm is currently generating 300 direct jobs, which comprises of farm staff, hunters and equipment operators. The industry can also generate over 5000 indirect jobs through its Out-Growers empowerment program. Last year, it empowered 150 local farmers through the office of Kogi State Governor.

He said: “As a catalyst for direct, indirect and general employment, once the rice mill commences operation, the industry will be employing other hundreds of staff, as its plans to run the plant at the maximum capacity on two-session day and night shift per day. Each shift will produce over 50 tons of finished Confluence Rice.

“The Kogi Rice Milling industry, through its processing operation, gives more nutritive food and conserves rice by way of recoveries. It also increases the shelf life of rice.

“By establishing the Rice Milling Industry, Governor Yahaya Bello is Using one stone to kill two birds; while fighting food insecurity by increasing food production, he is also fighting the scourge of unemployment by creating direct and indirect jobs. This is what the ‘New Direction Government” stands for and Governor Yahaya Bello is steering the ship to the next level of development,” he said.

Oloruntoba explained that nearness to the Kampe Dam at Omi, also in Yagba West Local Council informed the citing of the rice mill at Ejiba for irrigation purposes and dry season farming.

“We needed to utilize that dam for the economic prosperity of our people. The dam was commissioned in 1999 and never put to serious use. The target is to cultivate 4000 hectares of rice plantation there to feed the mill. 800 hectares will produce 6,400 tonnes of rice yearly because we will plant during the wet and dry seasons”, he said.

SOURCE:https://brandspurng.com/2022/07/06/kogi-state-commissions-36000mt-y-rice-milling-plant/

Good project .... We need more of this.

But wetin Bello dey look like that? .... Lolz



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Nice one..... How come they do this towards the end of their 8yrs .

Good one

Atleast one good news from Nigeria today, Its a rare thing these days

One of d governors that got power by mistake...

All I can say is that the country will be great again.

Nice one GYB

Well.... Nice one

This appears to the first and only new project from GYB?

billed to be commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari as part of the activities marking the 28th anniversary of the creation of Kogi State on August 27, 2019.

Nairaland APC propaganda

Smithkafors:
Nice one..... How come they do this towards the end of their 8yrs .

Because it takes time to complete a project
Especially in this part of the world.

Smithkafors:
Nice one..... How come they do this towards the end of their 8yrs .

show us wetin ya kerosine governor do na

Cool

We been dey fear say im go even vex scatter that flyover bridge for Lokoja after he failed to win the primaries.. he try Nice one

Smithkafors:
Nice one..... How come they do this towards the end of their 8yrs .

It's too late. Bello failed the people. These token commissioning of a sprinkling of projects can't resurrect those who have died from hunger, treatable diseases and deprivation caused by his refusal to pay salaries and pensions to civil servants. The state is an agrarian state, and the civil servants trickle down to the dependants... Wicked young man.

Yeye de smell, same project he commissioned some years back

This man got negative publicity. He actually executed some strategic projects in Kogi State

I pray it will not turn to sand Rice at the end.

BrandSpurNG:


SOURCE:https://brandspurng.com/2022/07/06/kogi-state-commissions-36000mt-y-rice-milling-plant/

Haba why recycling old news nah....? The rice mill that's was built since past four years with local government money and loans and is already dead and not functioning again is what you are bringing here....!!! Haba make una fear God nah!!!!!

OP must be on weed for posting this nonsense,enough of this fake news....Ejiba rice mill commissioned some years ago and not functioning as expected is now a new project.... bookmark this post Yahaya Bello will rot in jail after his tenure.

youngwarlocks:
This man got negative publicity. He actually executed some strategic projects in Kogi State

What strategic projects.He is a failed governor and the worst in Nigeria history,forget all these social media hypes by his paid agents.

cp3o:


It's too late. Bello failed the people. These token commissioning of a sprinkling of projects can't resurrect those who have died from hunger, treatable diseases and deprivation caused by his refusal to pay salaries and pensions to civil servants. The state is an agrarian state, and the civil servants trickle down to the dependants... Wicked young man.

He may be a wicked man I guess you can say same to your parents because I'm sure they have responsibility they are supposed to take care and they didn't show concern, what good for the goons is good for the .........

Old news, who pay you to do this

Wow! Nice development!

Why didn't they show the whole facility in the pics ?

Or is this a Bello scam?

Las las this one de try pass Ortom his brother in the failure abun nan.

LoneWolf212:
Good project .... We need more of this.

But wetin Bello dey look like that? .... Lolz



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