Rice company, Pearl Universal Impex Limited, is creating over 7,000 jobs through its rice farming project in Niger State.
Following a successful pilot phase of its rice project in June this year, the firm says it was ready to determine the variety of rice most suitable to Saminaka, a community situated around Swashi Dam in Borgu Local Government Area of the state where it currently has 500 hectares of land.
Chairman of Pearl Universal, Pulkit Jain, said that the project would create 3,000 direct and 4,000 indirect jobs through its out-grower scheme.
Jain also revealed that $100m (N20bn) would be committed to the cultivation of 7,500 hectares of rice farm and construction of two rice mills in the state in the next three years.
Extracted from the Punch Newspaper
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