In its efforts to transform Kwara State to Nigeria’s number one investment destination on agriculture, the Kwara State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Mosila Group Limited for the establishment of a 600 tons Agro Processing Complex in Share, Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state.
The Agro Processing Complex is to take advantage of the state’s huge potential in cassava farming by adding value to cassava derivatives.
The Chairman of Mosilo Group Limited, Mr. Moses Siasia, who signed on behalf his company, said the Agro-processing Complex, which would be on 100 hectares, would be built in three phases.
Siasia said an 18-month period has been earmarked for the completion of the first phase of the project at a cost of $150 million.
He explained that Kwara State was chosen for the project because of its tremendous achievements in agriculture and investment pursuits.
Speaking at the occasion, the governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, said the Agro Processing Complex will change the status of Nigeria as the largest producer of Cassava in the world without added value.
“Our purpose is to move agriculture from the farms to the industries through well coordinated commercial and industry-based agricultural practices,” Alhaji Ahmed said
He added that the complex will be a big boost for the realisation of the values of the Cassava Reformation Agenda of the state and federal governments.