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Nigerians consume more than 5 million metric tons of rice every year, with a significant portion of its consumption needs sourced from imports. Rotimi Williams, an ambitious 36 year-old Nigerian entrepreneur and rice farmer, is on a quest to change that.

Williams, a former Journalist, is the owner of Kereksuk Rice Farm, the 2nd largest commercial rice farm in Nigeria by land size. His farm, which is situated in Nasarawa state in northern Nigeria, currently sits on 43,000 hectares and employs more than 100 indigenes of Nasarawa.


More: http://nigerianpilot.com/meet-36-year-old-entrepreneur-owns-nigerias-2nd-largest-rice-farm/

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LESSON: Naija youths we can do better, Imagine this cute guy was born with a silver spoon but yet, he choose to go farming.

[quote author=willywasco post=46978593]Nigerians consume more than 5 million metric tons of rice every year, with a significant portion of its consumption needs sourced from imports. Rotimi Williams, an ambitious 36 year-old Nigerian entrepreneur and rice farmer, is on a quest to change that.

Williams, a former Journalist, is the owner of Kereksuk Rice Farm, the 2nd largest commercial rice farm in Nigeria by land size. His farm, which is situated in Nasarawa state in northern Nigeria, currently sits on 43,000 hectares and employs more than 100 indigenes of Nasarawa.


More: http://nigerianpilot.com/meet-36-year-old-entrepreneur-owns-nigerias-2nd-largest-rice-farm/

https://nigerianpilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Rotimi-Williams.jpg

LESSON: Naija youths we can do better, Imagine this cute guy was born with a silver spoon but yet, he choose to go farming.

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willywasco:
Nigerians consume more than 5 million metric tons of rice every year, with a significant portion of its consumption needs sourced from imports. Rotimi Williams, an ambitious 36 year-old Nigerian entrepreneur and rice farmer, is on a quest to change that.

Williams, a former Journalist, is the owner of Kereksuk Rice Farm, the 2nd largest commercial rice farm in Nigeria by land size. His farm, which is situated in Nasarawa state in northern Nigeria, currently sits on 43,000 hectares and employs more than 100 indigenes of Nasarawa.


More: http://nigerianpilot.com/meet-36-year-old-entrepreneur-owns-nigerias-2nd-largest-rice-farm/

https://nigerianpilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Rotimi-Williams.jpg

LESSON: Naija youths we can do better, Imagine this cute guy was born with a silver spoon but yet, he choose to go farming.

Not surprise.

God bless your hustle rotimi.
Agric is the future.

Wa o! He is probably related to chief FRA Williams- the late legal luminary.

The guy is not an hungry/subsistence farmer.