Sokoto to allocate 33,000 ha of farmland to Dangote – commissioner
- Blueprint
- 26 June 2014
Nigeria's Sokoto state government has approved the allocation of 33,000 hectares of farmland to Dangote Group of companies for the plantation of sugarcane.
Nigeria's Sokoto state government has approved the allocation of 33,000 hectares of farmland to Dangote Group of companies for the plantation of sugarcane.
The Movement for The Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) says Rivers State Government fraudulently acquired over 2,000 ha of Ogoni farmlands and handed them to a Mexican farmer for a banana plantation.
Over 5,000 farmers from Kebbi State have been displaced as the state government took over their farmlands and allocated them to a Chinese firm for mass agricultural production.
The Taraba Government on Monday said that Dangote Group had paid N1.2 billion to it as compensation for land acquired in Lau Local Government Area of the state.
The Nigerian government and Taraba State signed an MOU for 30,000 hectares with Calvin Burgess, a US investor and owner of Dominion Farms Ltd, for large scale rice production in Taraba State.
He said the conglomerate would require about 250,000 hectares of land for sugar cane production and 130,000 hectares for rice farming.
L’état de Cross River, qui est le second bassin cacaoyer du Nigéria, met en vente 5 fermes publiques s’étendant sur 12 129 hectares.
Wilmar International, one of the world’s largest oil palm companies, through its subsidiary, Biase Plantations Ltd acquired 5,561 hectares of land from the Cross River State government in 2011.
The farms cover 12,129 hectares and produced about 50,000 metric tons annually.
The pilot farm, which will serve as a prelude to a bigger 4,000 hectares cassava farm by Flour Mills of Nigeria and other investors, is supported by the USAID.
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria has cautioned the Edo State Government from going ahead with plans to allocate 410,000 ha of forest land belonging to community people to corporations
Edo State Government says 60,000 ha acquired for oil palm by instant noodle maker United Food Industries Ltd of Indonesia's Salim Group.
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