President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday inaugurated the long-awaited 32-metric tonnes per hour Lagos Rice Mill located in Imota, Ikorodu, a suburb of Lagos.
The president arrived in Lagos on a two-day visit that will see him commission a host of projects in the commercial capital of the country.
According to reports from NAN, Buhari, arrived in Imota around 5:30 p.m. and took a brief tour of the mill in the company of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, amongst other dignitaries and government officials.
The president unveiled the rice and observed a brief display of how it is being produced and packaged.
The Lagos Rice Mill, Imota is a two x 16 metric tonnes per-hour mill standing on an area of 8.5 hectares of land.
The project has an annual paddy requirement of over 240,000 metric tonnes to produce 2.5 million bags of 5OKg rice per annum.
The mill is located in an area of land of about 22 hectares big, with the mill itself occupying 8.5 hectares. The rest of the land is to be used for an industrial park.
The rice mill is regarded as the largest mill in Africa and the third-largest mill in the world.
Speaking at the event, Governor Sanwo-Olu said that Lagos was ready to support Buhari’s rice revolution. According to him, the Lagos Imota Rice Mill is part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s agricultural revolution.
With 2.8 million bags of 50kg rice per annum, Lagos is ready to support rice and food revolution in Nigeria.
The rice milk will create close to 250,000 direct and indirect jobs.
